Hosea 8:3

"They cry to me, ‘My God, we, Israel, acknowledge you!’"

Key Reflection

In Hosea 8:3, the people of Israel are acknowledging their need for divine intervention and expressing their faith in God as their ultimate refuge. This cry reflects both their recognition of God's sovereignty and their acknowledgment of having forsaken Him, highlighting the tension between their professed devotion and their actual actions elsewhere in the chapter.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

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.

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