Hosea 8:3

English Standard Version

Israel has spurned the good; the enemy shall pursue him.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Israel has rejected what is good;an enemy will pursue him.

Hebrew Names Version
Yisra'el has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him.

King James Version
Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

New American Standard Bible
Israel has rejected the good; The enemy will pursue him.

New Century Version
But Israel has rejected what is good, so the enemy will chase them.

Amplified Bible
Israel has rejected the good; The enemy shall pursue him.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Israel hath cast off ye thing that is good: the enemie shall pursue him.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Israel has rejected the good; The enemy will pursue him.

Legacy Standard Bible
Israel has rejected the good;The enemy will pursue him.

Berean Standard Bible
But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him.

Contemporary English Version
But your enemies will chase you for rejecting our good agreement.

Complete Jewish Bible
Isra'el has thrown away what is good; the enemy will pursue him.

Darby Translation
Israel hath cast off good: the enemy shall pursue him.

Easy-to-Read Version
But Israel refused the good things, so the enemy chases him.

George Lamsa Translation
Israel has forgotten the good; the enemy has pursued him.

Good News Translation
they have rejected what is good. Because of this their enemies will pursue them.

Lexham English Bible
Israel has spurned the good; the enemy will pursue him.

Literal Translation
Israel has thrown off good; the enemy shall pursue him.

American Standard Version
Israel hath cast off that which is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

Bible in Basic English
Israel has given up what is good; his haters will go after him.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Israel hath cast off that which is good; the enemy shall pursue him.

King James Version (1611)
Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemie shall pursue him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But he hath refused the thyng that is good, therfore shall the enemie pursue him.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For Israel has turned away from good things; they have pursued an enemy.

English Revised Version
Israel hath cast off that which is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

World English Bible
Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Israel hath cast awei good, the enemye schal pursue hym.

Update Bible Version
Israel has cast off that which is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

Webster's Bible Translation
Israel hath cast off [the thing that is] good: the enemy shall pursue him.

New English Translation
But Israel has rejected what is morally good; so an enemy will pursue him.

New King James Version
Israel has rejected the good; The enemy will pursue him.

New Living Translation
But it is too late. The people of Israel have rejected what is good, and now their enemies will chase after them.

New Life Bible
Israel has turned away from the good, and those who hate him will come after him.

New Revised Standard
Israel has spurned the good; the enemy shall pursue him.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Israel hath cast away what is good, - an enemy, shall pursue him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Israel hath cast off the thing that is good, the enemy shall pursue him.

Revised Standard Version
Israel has spurned the good; the enemy shall pursue him.

Young's Literal Translation
Cast off good hath Israel, an enemy pursueth him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but he hath refused the thinge that is good, therfore shall the enemye folowe vpon him.

Contextual Overview

¹ Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord , because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law. ² To me they cry, "My God, we—Israel—know you." ³ Israel has spurned the good; the enemy shall pursue him. ⁴ They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but I knew it not. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction. ⁵ I have spurned your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? ⁶ For it is from Israel; a craftsman made it; it is not God. The calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces. ⁷ For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

cast: Psalms 36:3, Psalms 81:10, Psalms 81:11, Amos 1:11, 1 Timothy 5:12

the enemy: Leviticus 26:36, Deuteronomy 28:25, Lamentations 3:66, Lamentations 4:19

Reciprocal: Job 35:13 - God Matthew 7:21 - saith Mark 7:6 - honoureth Titus 1:16 - profess 1 John 2:4 - I know

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

Genesis 7:24
And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Israel hath cast off [the thing that is] good,.... Or "rejected [him that is] good" y; that is, God, as Kimchi observes; for there is none good but him, Matthew 19:17; he is the "summum bonum", "the chiefest good" to men, and is essentially, originally, and infinitely good in himself, and the fountain of all goodness to his creatures; and yet Israel has rejected him with detestation and contempt, as the word z signifies, though they pretended to know him, which shows their hypocrisy; and therefore it is no wonder that their prayers were rejected by him: or they rejected the good word of God, the law, or doctrine contained in it, and the good worship, service, and fear of God, and indeed everything that was good, just, and right. Cocceius renders it, "the good One", or he that is God, the good God, "hath cast off Israel". This reading of the words Drusius also mentions, and seems to like best, and as agreeing with what follows; so Rivet; but the position of the words in the Hebrew text, and the accents, do not favour it;

the enemy shall pursue him; who is before compared to an eagle, which flies swiftly, and pursues its prey with eagerness and fierceness: Shalmaneser is meant, who should invade the land, come up to Samaria, besiege and take it; nothing should stop him, nor should Israel escape from him, since they had cast off the Lord, and everything that was good. The Targum is,

"the house of Israel have erred from my worship, for the sake of which I brought good things upon them; henceforward the enemy shall pursue them.''

y זנח ישראל טוב "deseruit Israel bonum, i. e. Deum", Vatablus, Munster, Tarnovius, Zanchius. z "Abominatus est", Calvin, Zanchius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Israel has cast off the thing that is good - Or (since the word means “to cast off with abhorrence” “Israel hath east off and abhorred Good,” both “Him who is Good” and “that which is good.” The word “tob” includes both. They rejected good in rejecting God , “Who is simply, supremely, wholly, universally good, and good to all, the Author and Fountain of all good, so that there is nothing simply good but God; nothing worthy of that title, except in respect of its relation to Him who is “good and doining good” Psalms 119:68. So then whatsoever any man hath or enjoys of good, is from his relation to Him, his nearness to Him, his congruity with Him. “The drawing near to God is good to me” Psalms 73:28. All that any man hath of good, is from his being near to God, and his being, as far as human condition is capable of, like unto Him. So that they who are far from Him, and put Him far from them, necessarily “cast off” all that is “good.”

The enemy shall pursue him - “Forsaking God, and forsaken by Him, they must needs be laid open to all evils.” The “enemy,” i. e., the Assyrian, “shall pursue him.” This is according to the curse, denounced against them in the law, if they should forsake the Lord, and break His covenant, and “not hearken to His voice to observe to do His commandments” Deuteronomy 28:15-25.