Hosea 8:3

Israel Rejects The Good

² Unto me, shall they make outcry, My God! we acknowledge thee - we , Israel! ³ Israel hath cast away what is good, - an enemy, shall pursue him. ⁴ They, have appointed kings, but not from me, have made rulers, but I have not acknowledged them: of their silver and their gold, they made themselves idols, to the end they might be cut off.

People of Israel

What is Good

That Which Is Good

Israel

Leviticus 26:36

And as for such as are left of you, Then will I bring faintness into their heart, in the lands of their foes, - So that the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, And they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword And they shall fall, when no one is pursuing;

Deuteronomy 28:25

Yahweh will give thee up to be routed before thine enemies, one way, shalt thou go out against them, and, seven ways, shalt thou flee before them, - and thou shalt become a terror unto all the kingdoms of the earth.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth, are iniquity and deceit, he hath left off to show discretion by doing well:

Psalm 81:10-11

I, Yahweh, am thy God, Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, - Open wide thy mouth, that I may fill it.

Lamentations 3:66

Thou wilt pursue in anger, and wilt destroy them, from under the heavens of Yahweh.

Lamentations 4:19

Swifter are our pursuers, than the eagles of the heavens, - Over the mountains, have they come hotly after us, In the wilderness, have they lain in wait for us.

Amos 1:11

Thus, saith Yahweh, Because of three transgressions of Edom, and because of four, will I not turn it back, - Because he pursued, with the sword, his brother, and stifled his compassions, and his anger tare in pieces evermore, and, his indignation, kept watch perpetually,

1 Timothy 5:12

Having, as sentence, - that, their first faith, they have set at nought;