Book of Hosea Chapter 13 Vs.3

 The Lord's Relentless Judgment on Israel

Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney. Hos. 13:3

Therefore they shall... The 19th prophecy in Hosea (Hos. 13:3-4, fulfilled). Next, Hos. 13:7.

Two Predictions—Fulfilled:

1. Ephraim will soon pass away like a morning cloud, the early dew when the sun comes up, chaff driven with a whirlwind, and smoke disappearing after coming from the chimney (Hos. 13:3).

2. Ephraim will know no god but Me (Hos. 13:4).

be as the... All the comparisons in this verse are intended to express a quick destruction, or that they should soon come to nothing. Signifying that the idolatrous Israelites, king, priests, and people, should be no more. Their kingdom would cease, all their riches and wealth would depart from them, and they and their children be carried captive into a strange land.

and as the... Bright and glistening with light is the early dew; in an hour it is gone, as if it had never been. Glowing and gilded by the sun is the morning cloud; while you admire its beauty, its hues have vanished. Yet in a little time their land would become desolate, and they are stripped of all that was dear and valuable to them these metaphors are used (in Hos. 6:4).

as the chaff... Signifying that these idolatrous people were like chaff, struggling and empty, useless and unprofitable, fit for nothing but burning; and that they would be driven out of their own land through the Assyrian, that should come like a whirlwind with great power, as easily and as quickly as chaff is driven out of a threshing floor of corn with a strong blast of wind (see Psm. 1:5).

as the smoke... Which rises up in a pillar, and is so on dissipated by the wind, or dissolved into air; and is no sooner seen but it disappears (see Psm. 68:2). All these similes show how easily, suddenly, and quickly, the destruction of this idolatrous nation would be brought about.

All of these things are experienced for a moment and fade away. The chaff many times, symbolizes the lost of the world. Their terrible sin they had committed, was bringing them to swift destruction.

In such unreason have they sunk. They cannot endure. Therefore shall they be like the morning cloud and like the dew that early vanisheth, like chaff which whirleth up from the floor and like smoke from the window.

The judgment of God would make these idolaters quickly vanish (Hos. 13:3). Each of the four similes (mist… dew; cf. Hos. 6:4, chaff...  smoke) emphasizes the extremely transitory condition of the idolaters.