Hosea 8:3

Israel Rejects The Good

² Israel shall cry to me, My God, we knew thee. ³ Israel rejected the good: the enemy shall pursue him. ⁴ They made kings, and not from me: and they made princes, and I knew not: their silver and their gold they made to them images to cut off.

People of Israel

What is Good

That Which Is Good

Israel

Leviticus 26:36

And they remaining of you, and I brought timidity into their heart in the land of their enemies; and the voice of a driven leaf pursued them, and they fled, fleeing the sword; and they fell, and none pursued.

Deuteronomy 28:25

And Jehovah will give thee smitten before thine enemies: in one way thou shalt go forth against him, and in seven ways shalt thou flee before his face; and thou wert for a shaking to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth vanity and deceit: he ceased to be circumspect, to do good.

Psalm 81:10-11

I am Jehovah thy God bringing thee up from the land of Egypt: make broad thy mouth and I will fill it

Lamentations 3:66

Thou wilt pursue in thine anger, and thou wilt destroy them from under the heavens, O Jehovah.

Lamentations 4:19

They pursuing us were swift above the eagle of the heavens: they burned after us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the desert

Amos 1:11

Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn it back: for his pursuing his brother with the sword, and he destroyed his compassions, and his anger will rend forever, and his wrath was observed perpetually.

1 Timothy 5:12

Having judgment, for they put away the first faith.