Hosea 9:17

“My God will cast them away, etc.] With loathsomeness and contempt, having sinned against him, and done such abominable things; cast them out of their own land, as men not fit to live in it; cast them out of his sight, as not able to endure them; cast them away, as unprofitable and good for nothing; reject them from being his people; no more own them in the relation they had stood in to him; nor show them any more favour, at least until the conversion of them in the times of the Messiah. These are the words of the prophet, who calls the Lord his God, whom he worshipped, by whom he was sent, and in whose name he prophesied; and this in opposition to, and distinction from Israel, who worshipped…”

“My God--"My," in contrast to "them," that is, the people, whose God Jehovah no longer is. Also Hosea appeals to God as supporting his authority against the whole people. wanderers among . . . nations-- (Kg2 15:29; Ch1 5:26). Next: Hosea Chapter 10”

“My God hath cast them away - “My God” (he saith) as if God were his God only who clave to him, not their’s who had, by their disobedience, departed from Him. “My God.” “He had then authority from Him,” whom he owned and who owned “him,” and who bade him so Speak, as though God were “his” God, and no longer their’s. God “casts them away,” lit. “despises them,” and so rejects them as an object of aversion to Him, “because they did not hearken to Him.” “God never forsakes unless He be first forsaken.” When they would not hearken, neither doing what God commanded, nor abstaining from what He forbade, God at last rejected them, as worthless, lacking altogether to that end for which He created…”

“9:17 wanderers: God’s judgment on the Israelites would cut them off from the land, leaving them with no home.”

“My God: Ch2 18:13; Neh 5:19; Psa 31:14; Isa 7:13; Mic 7:7; Joh 20:17, Joh 20:28; Phi 4:19 because: Hos 7:13; Kg1 14:15, Kg1 14:16; Kg2 17:14-20; Ch2 36:16; Psa 81:11-13; Pro 29:1; Isa 48:18; Jer 25:3, Jer 25:4, Jer 26:4-6, Jer 35:15-17; Zac 1:4, Zac 7:11-14; Act 3:23 and: Deu 28:64, Deu 28:65, Deu 32:26; Amo 8:2, Amo 9:9; Joh 7:35; Jam 1:1 Next: Hosea Chapter 10”