Hosea 8:3

Israel Rejects The Good

² To Me they cry, 'My God, we -- Israel -- have known Thee.' ³ Cast off good hath Israel, an enemy pursueth him. ⁴ They have made kings, and not by Me, They have made princes, and I have not known, Their silver and their gold they have made to them idols, So that they are cut off.

People of Israel

What is Good

That Which Is Good

Israel

Leviticus 26:36

And those who are left of you -- I have also brought a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a leaf driven away hath pursued them, and they have fled -- flight from a sword -- and they have fallen, and there is none pursuing.

Deuteronomy 28:25

'Jehovah giveth thee smitten before thine enemies; in one way thou goest out unto them, and in seven ways dost flee before them, and thou hast been for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth;

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently -- to do good.

Psalm 81:10-11

I am Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it.

Lamentations 3:66

Thou pursuest in anger, and destroyest them, From under the heavens of Jehovah!

Lamentations 4:19

Swifter have been our pursuers, Than the eagles of the heavens, On the mountains they have burned after us, In the wilderness they have laid wait for us.

Amos 1:11

Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of his pursuing with a sword his brother, And he hath destroyed his mercies, And tear perpetually doth his anger, And his wrath -- he hath kept it for ever,

1 Timothy 5:12

having judgment, because the first faith they did cast away,