
Text -- Hosea 2:9 (NET)




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I will resume all I gave.

When they should gather it in, as being ripe.
JFB: Hos 2:9 - -- In contrast to "my bread . . . my wool . . . my flax," (Hos 2:5). Compare also Hos 2:21-23, on God as the great First Cause giving these through secon...
In contrast to "my bread . . . my wool . . . my flax," (Hos 2:5). Compare also Hos 2:21-23, on God as the great First Cause giving these through secondary instruments in nature. "Return, and take away," is equivalent to, "I will take back again," namely, by sending storms, locusts, Assyrian enemies, &c. "Therefore," that is, because she did not acknowledge Me as the Giver.
Clarke -> Hos 2:9
Clarke: Hos 2:9 - -- Therefore will I return, and take away - In the course of my providence, I will withhold those benefits which she has prostituted to her idolatrous ...
Therefore will I return, and take away - In the course of my providence, I will withhold those benefits which she has prostituted to her idolatrous services. And I will neither give the land rain, nor fruitful seasons.
Calvin -> Hos 2:9
Calvin: Hos 2:9 - -- It now follows Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in its time, and my new wine in its stated time. Here, again, the Prophet shows that ...
It now follows Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in its time, and my new wine in its stated time. Here, again, the Prophet shows that God was, by extreme necessity, constrained to take vengeance on an ungodly and irreclaimable people. He makes known how great was the hardness of the people, and then adds, “What now remains, but to deprive those who have been so ungrateful to me of all their blessings?” It is, indeed, more than base for men to enjoy the gifts of God and to despise the giver; yea, to exalt his creatures to his place, and to reduce, as it were, all his authority to nothing. This the superstitious indeed do, for they thrust God from his pre-eminence, and insult his glory. Will God, in the meantime, so throw away his blessings as to suffer them to be profaned by the ungodly, and himself to be thus mocked with impunity? We now then see the object of the Prophet; for God here shows that there was no other remedy, but to deprive the Israelites of all their gifts: he had indeed enriched them, but they had abused all their abundance. It was therefore necessary to reduce them to extreme want, that they might no longer pollute God’s gifts which ought to be held sacred by us.
And he uses a very suitable word; for
And he adds, to cover her nakedness
When he says, I will take away the corn and wine in its time, and in its stated time, he alludes, I have no doubt, to the time of harvest and vintage; as though he said, “The harvest will come, the vintage will come: there has been hitherto great fruitfulness; but I will show that the earth and all its fruits are subject to my will. Though, then, the Israelites are now full, and have their storehouses well furnished, they shall know that I rule over the harvest and the vintage, when the stated time shall come.” Now, the Spirit of God denounced this punishment early, that the Israelites, if reclaimable, might return to a right course. But as their blindness was so great that they despised all that had been said to them, no excuse remained for them. It now follows —
TSK -> Hos 2:9
TSK: Hos 2:9 - -- will I : Dan 11:13; Joe 2:14; Mal 1:4, Mal 3:18
take : Hos 2:3; Isa 3:18-26, Isa 17:10,Isa 17:11; Eze 16:27, Eze 16:39, Eze 23:26; Zep 1:13; Hag 1:6-1...

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Barnes -> Hos 2:9
Barnes: Hos 2:9 - -- Therefore I will return - God is, as it were, absent from men, when He lets them go on in their abuse of His gifts. "His judgments are far abov...
Therefore I will return - God is, as it were, absent from men, when He lets them go on in their abuse of His gifts. "His judgments are far above out of their sight."He returns to them, and His presence is felt in chastisements, as it might have been in mercies. He is not out of sight or out of mind, then. Others render it, "I will turn, i. e. I will do other than before; I will turn"from love to displeasure, from pouring out benefits to the infliction of chastisements, from giving abundance of all things to punishing them with the want of all things.
I will take away My corn in the time thereof - God shows us that His gifts come from Him, either by giving them when we almost despair of them, or taking them away, when they are all but our’ s. It can seem no chance, when He so doeth. The chastisement is severer also, when the good things, long looked-for, are, at the last, taken out of our very hands, and that, when there is no remedy. If in harvest-time there be dearth, what afterward! "God taketh away all, that they who knew not the Giver through abundance, might know Him through want."
And will recover My wool - God "recovers,"and, as it were, "delivers"the works of His Hands from serving the ungodly. While He leaves His creatures in the possession of the wicked, they are holden, as it were, in captivity, being kept back from their proper uses, and made the handmaidens and instruments and tempters to sin. God made His creatures on earth to serve man, that man, on occasion of them, might glorify Him. It is against the order of nature, to use God’ s gifts to any other end, short of God’ s glory much more, to turn God’ s gifts against Himself, and make them serve to pride or luxury or sensual sin. It is a bondage, as it were, to them. Whence of them also Paul saith, "The creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly; and, all creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now"Rom 8:20, Rom 8:22. Penitents have felt this. They have felt that they deserve no more that the sun should shine on them, or the earth sustain them, or the air support them, or wine refresh them, or food nourish them, since all these are the creatures and servants of the God whom themselves have offended, and they themselves deserve no more to be served by God’ s servants, since they have rebelled against their common Master, or to use even rightly what they have abused against the will of their Creator.
My flax - Given "to cover her nakedness, i. e. which God had given to that end. Shame was it, that, covered with the raiment which God had given her to hide her shame, she did deeds of shame. The white linen garments of her priests also were symbols of that purity, which the Great high priest should have and give. Now, withdrawing those gifts, He gave them up to the greatest visible shame, such as insolent conquerors, in leading a people into captivity, often inflicted upon them. Thereby, in act, was figured that loss of the robe of righteousness, heavenly grace, wherewith God beautifies the soul, whereof when it is stripped, it is indeed foul.
Poole -> Hos 2:9
Poole: Hos 2:9 - -- Therefore because I was not acknowledged nor served as the giver,
will I return: much after the manner of man doth God speak; he had left large ble...
Therefore because I was not acknowledged nor served as the giver,
will I return: much after the manner of man doth God speak; he had left large blessings behind him among this people, but their sottish ingratitude provokes him to resolutions of returning and seizing of all.
Take away take into my hands, or resume all I give, for all given was mine still; God never gives away his right.
My corn it was hers while thankfully received and rightly used, but want of these forfeit that right, and the propriety reverts to God. See Hos 2:8 .
In the time thereof either when they should gather it in, as being ripe, or when they need it, and should use it. All they enjoy is mine, but since they so use me as to serve Baal by it, I will either take all away from them, or make all useless to them. When I take away my wool and my flax, she shall appear shamefully naked, not having one rag of her own.
Haydock -> Hos 2:9
Haydock: Hos 2:9 - -- Season. When the harvest is ripe, the loss is more afflicting. God withdraws what proves an occasion of sin. ---
Liberty. The creature serves un...
Season. When the harvest is ripe, the loss is more afflicting. God withdraws what proves an occasion of sin. ---
Liberty. The creature serves unwillingly, Romans viii. 21.
Gill -> Hos 2:9
Gill: Hos 2:9 - -- Therefore will I return, and take away,.... Or, "take away again" k; an usual Hebraism:
my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season ther...
Therefore will I return, and take away,.... Or, "take away again" k; an usual Hebraism:
my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof; for though these are the gifts of God to men for their use, and to dispose of for the good of others; yet he retains his property in them, and can and will call them to an account for their stewardship; and, when he pleases, take away both their office, and the good things they were intrusted with, not making a right use of them; and this he does in his own appointed time and season, or at such a time when these are at the best, and the greatest good is expected from them, and which therefore is the more afflictive; as in the time of harvest and vintage, so Kimchi, when corn and grapes are fully ripe; or, as the Targum, in the time of the corn being on the floor, and of the pressure of the wine:
and will recover my wool, and my flax, given "to cover her nakedness"; or, "I will take away"; by force and violence, as out of the hands of thieves, and robbers, and usurpers, who have no right to them, being forfeited; these were given to cover her nakedness, but not to deck herself with for the honour of her idols, or to cherish pride and superstition; see Mat 23:5 these were all taken away when the Romans came and took away their place and nation, Joh 11:48. The Septuagint and Arabic versions give the sense as if these were taken,
that they might not cover her nakedness, or "shame"; but that it might be exposed, as follows:

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NET Notes: Hos 2:9 This announcement of judgment is extremely ironic and forcefully communicates poetic justice: The punishment will fit the crime. The Israelites were l...
Geneva Bible -> Hos 2:9
Geneva Bible: Hos 2:9 Therefore will I return, and take away ( l ) my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax [giv...

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TSK Synopsis -> Hos 2:1-23
TSK Synopsis: Hos 2:1-23 - --1 The idolatry of the people.6 God's judgments against them.14 His promises of reconciliation with them.
MHCC -> Hos 2:6-13
MHCC: Hos 2:6-13 - --God threatens what he would do with this treacherous, idolatrous people. They did not turn, therefore all this came upon them; and it is written for a...
Matthew Henry -> Hos 2:6-13
Matthew Henry: Hos 2:6-13 - -- God here goes on to threaten what he would do with this treacherous idolatrous people; and he warns that he may not wound, he threatens that he may ...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Hos 2:9
Keil-Delitzsch: Hos 2:9 - --
"Therefore will I take back my corn at its time, and my must at its season, and tear away my wool and my flax for the covering of her nakedness." B...
Constable: Hos 2:2--4:1 - --III. The second series of messages of judgment and restoration: marital unfaithfulness 2:2--3:5
These messages d...

Constable: Hos 2:3-14 - --A. Oracles of judgment 2:2-13
Two judgment oracles follow. In the first one, Hosea and Gomer's relations...
