Hosea 2:20

And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil,.... Or "answer" here the corn, and vines, and olive trees, are represented as requesting the earth to be let into it, and receive moisture…

And thou shalt know the Lord - This knowledge of God follows on God’s act of betrothal and of love. “We love God, because God first loved us.” And the true knowledge of God includes the love of God.…

The state of Israel ruined by their own sin did not look so black and dismal in the former part of the chapter, but that the state of Israel, restrained by the divine grace, looks as bright and…

and thou shalt know the Lord The -knowledge" of Jehovah is repeatedly insisted upon by Hosea (see Hos 4:1; Hos 5:4; Hos 6:3; Hos 6:6); not however a merely intellectual one, but that which rests upon…