For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
For she did not know - The prophet having, in summary Hos 2:5-7, related her fall, her chastisement, and her recovery, begins anew, enlarging both on the impending inflictions, and the future mercy.…
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 not strike. If he turn not, he will whet his sword…
The offended Husband describes the compulsion which he will employ towards his faithless wife.
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