Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 8:3

3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good : the enemy shall pursue him .

The whole house of Israel.

With an abhorrence, as an Adulterous Wise puts away her Husband.

Moral good to be done, all vertue and goodness; And the supream good to be enjoy'd, God, true Religion and vertue, all cast off for Idols, false Religion and debaucheries. Such a Nation cannot be my people, nor do they know me.

That enemy he would be deliver'd from, the Assyrian Army shall overthrow, and then pursue, till he hath coopt him up in Samaria, and till he have brought them Captives out of their own land into Chalah, Cha[illegible: 1 letter]or and Gozan, &c. By this they shall know that I know them, their transgressions and hypocrisie.

This seems to be the answer God by his Prophet gives to Israel; in the first part of the verse he doth refute their pretence of a peculiar relation and interest in God, in the latter, he tells them what they must expect.