George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Hosea 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 unwillingly, Romans viii. 21.
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.
Verse Hosea 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 services. And I will neither give...
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 presen...
CHAPTER 2 Appeal and Punishment for Unfaithfulness The Resumed Relationship _ 1. The appeal and complaint (Hosea 2:1) _ 2. The punishment for Unfaithfulness (Hosea 2:6) 3. The resumed relationship...
HOSEA 2:2 (Hebrews 2:4). In this discourse, which seems to be based upon and imply the narrative in Hosea 1, 3, the prophet sets forth the unfaithfulness of the people and land of Israel to her Divine...
WILL. RETURN. In judgment. TAKE AWAY. take back. Compare Hosea 2:3. MY WINE, &C. They were all His, and from Him. RECOVER. rescue (Genesis 31:16)....
The offended Husband describes the compulsion which he will employ towards his faithless wife....
And now in order radically to cure the Israelites of this error (viz. that their good things have come from the Baals) the people are for a time to be deprived of these blessings. _return and take aw...
_ISRAEL REFUSED TO THANK AND HONOR GOD -- HOSEA 2:6-13:_ God promised that He would make the path of His unfaithful people rough and very hard to take. They had used blessings given them by God to ser...
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDESHAME REVEALED TEXT: Hosea 2:9-13 9 Therefore will I take back my grain in the time thereof, and my new wine in the season thereof, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which...
Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness. THEREFORE WILL I RETURN, AN...
THE DISCIPLINE AND RESTORATION OF FAITHLESS ISRAEL The unfaithful conduct of Gomer and the prophet's gentle treatment of her are regarded as an analogue of the nation's faithlessness and God's gentle...
LO-AMMI] i.e. 'not my people.' By their sin and perfidy Israel had ceased to act as God's people. They had refused the responsibilities of their calling, and could not expect its privileges. 10. Here,...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 2 V1 Then you will tell your brothers, ‘You are my people’. And you will tell your sisters, ‘He has shown *mercy to you’. In cha...
THEREFORE WILL I RETURN, AND TAKE... — The Hebrew form of saying, “Therefore I will take _back.”_ Jehovah resumes all that had been misappropriated. The king of Assyria (Tiglath-pileser, 734 B.C.) was...
_[Hosea 2:11]_ לָכֵ֣ן אָשׁ֔וּב וְ לָקַחְתִּ֤י דְגָנִי֙...
Hosea 2:1; Hosea 3:1 THE SIN AGAINST LOVE Hosea 1:1; Hosea 2:1; Hosea 3:1;
THE BITTER SIN OF WANDERING FROM GOD Hosea 2:1-13 Hosea is represented as having exhausted his expostulations upon his faithless wife. He has tried every arrow in love's quiver, but in vain; so now...
No details of the unfaithfulness of Gomer are given, but in the second movement the prophet is seen nursing his own agony, and by that process learning the true nature of the sin of his people as God...
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 [given] to cover her nakedness. (l) Signifying that God...
These are so many blessed expressions, to show how graciously the Lord is dealing with his people, in the bounties both of providence and grace; while our proud, unhumbled nature, overlooking the Lord...
The prophecy of Hosea naturally divides itself into two principal divisions with minor sections. The first consists of Hosea 1:1-11; Hosea 2:1-23; Hosea 3:1-5; the second, of the rest of the book. Wit...
Unfaithfulness I. INTRODUCTION A. This morning we continue with the love story of Hosea and Gomer. 1. I trust that you remember that the Lord instructed Hosea to love his wife with an unconditional...
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...
Chapter 2 introduces some new elements of exceeding interest; and, at the same time, a magnificent revelation of the dealings of God in grace, towards Israel. The opening words of the chapter appear t...
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 fo...
Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax [given] to cover her nakedness. Ver. 9. _Therefore will I r...
_For she did not know_ Or, as Bishop Horsley renders it, _But she would not know, that I gave her corn_, &c. She did not, or would not consider that all the necessaries she enjoyed, as well as her ric...
Therefore will I return and take away My corn in the time thereof, namely, at the very time of the harvest, when men would expect a full supply, AND MY WINE IN THE SEASON THEREOF AND WILL RECOVER MY W...
V. 1. SAY YE UNTO YOUR BRETHREN, AMMI ("My people"); AND TO YOUR SISTERS, RUHAMAH ("having obtained mercy"). The original names of the children were thus changed to indicate their changed relationship...
RECOVER: Or, take away...
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 admonition to us. If lesser difficulties be g...
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 sotti...
Hosea 2:9 return H7725 (H8799) away H3947 (H8804) grain H1715 time H6256 wine H8492 season H4150 back...
“Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.' So because she had failed to recognis...
JUDGMENT IS TO FALL ON GOD'S REJECTED PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY HAVE FOLLOWED FALSE RELIGION AND FALSE GODS, NOT REALISING WHO IT WAS WHO WAS REALLY THEIR BENEFACTOR. THEY WILL BE EXPOSED AND SHAMED, SOMETH...
Hosea 2:6. _Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths._ God will cause sin to be painful; he will make the way of it difficult; he wil...
In this chapter God compares Israel to a woman who had been unfaithful to her husband in the very worst and most wicked manner. Hosea 2:5. _For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived...
CONTENTS: The chastisement of adulterous Israel. Yet to be restored. CHARACTERS: God, Hosea, Ammi, Ruhamah, Baalim. CONCLUSION: Those who exchange the service of God for the service of the world and...
Hosea 2:1. _Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi,_ that is, my people; _and to your sisters, Ruhamah,_ that is, mercy, or oh mercy, or having obtained mercy, or mercy shall follow. Hosea 2:3. _Lest I strip...
_Therefore will I return._ CHANGES IN GOD’S WAYS WITH US “Therefore will I return,” that is, I will change the way of My administrations toward them; I will go out of My way of mercy, and turn into M...
_For she did not know._ AGNOSTICISM There is a theory which is known to-day by the difficult name Agnosticism. A great deal of worthless thinking may be hidden under that dark term. The meaning is su...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 2:1 Hosea uses the legal process of an offended husband against his wife as a picture of God’s plans for dealing with Israel’s rebellion. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 2:8. NOT KNOW] Wilful ignorance and ingratitude, for she was taught by the law and the providence of God. PREPARED] Made and mended images of Baal, and devoted them to the supp...
EXPOSITION HOSEA 2:2 PLEAD WITH YOUR MOTHER, PLEAD: FOR SHE IS NOT THY WIFE, NEITHER AM I HER HUSBAND. In this second chapter the same cycle of events recurs as in the first, with this difference, th...
Say to your brethren (Hsa Hosea 2:1), And here he leaves out the Lo, which is the negative. Say to your brethren, My people; and to your sister, Ruhamah (Hsa Hosea 2:1). Or, "having obtained mercy....
Daniel 11:13; Ezekiel 16:27; Ezekiel 16:39; Ezekiel 23:26; Haggai 1:
Take away — I will resume all I gave. In the time thereof — When they should gather it in, as being ripe....