Book of Matthew Chapter 8 Vs. 8

 Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind

Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure. Hos. 8:8

is swallowed up... For her sins Israel was to be destroyed and dispersed among the Gentiles. Not only their substance, but their persons also; the whole nation of them and their whole estate, civil and ecclesiastic. It notes the utter destruction of them by the Assyrians, so that nothing of them and theirs remained. Just as anyone is swallowed up and devoured by a breast of prey; the present is put for the future, because of the certainty of it.

now shall they... When Shalmaneser took Samaria, and with it swallowed up the whole kingdom of Israel, he carried captive the inhabitants of it, and placed them among the nations, in "Halah, Habor, by the river Gozan", and in the cities of the Medes (2Kgs. 17:6).

where is no... Where they lived poor, mean, and abject, and were treated with the utmost neglect and contempt. No more regarded than a broken useless vessel, or than a vessel of dishonor, that is made and used for the ease of nature, for which no more regard is had than for that service. Thus idolaters, who dishonor God by their idolatries, shall, sooner or later, be brought to disgrace and dishonor themselves.

This speaks of what most people think are the lost 10 tribes. They do not go back into the land as a whole but are scattered in the Gentile nations around them. God does not completely shut the door to them, however. They become part of the Gentile world.

Nay, Israel hath let herself be swallowed up! Already are they becoming among the nations like a vessel there is no more use for. Heathen empires have sucked them dry.

Already Israel had been swallowed up by her foreign policy (cf. Hos. 7:8-12). Her involvement with foreigners was swiftly robbing the nation of its strength and identity as the Lord’s people. Israel had become as worthless as a broken pot (cf. Jer. 22:28; 48:38). The words worthless thing is literally, a pot in which no one delights (NASB).