Hosea 2:7 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Hosea 2:7

5 For their mother has played the harlot;
She who conceived them has behaved shamefully.
For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
^aWho give me my bread and my water,
My wool and my linen,
My oil and my drink.’

6 “Therefore, behold,
^aI will hedge up your way with thorns,
And¹ wall her in,
So that she cannot find her paths.

7 She will¹ chase her lovers,
But not overtake them;
Yes, she will seek them, but not find them.
Then she will say,
^a‘I will go and return to my ^bfirst husband,
For then it was better for me than now.’

8 For she did not ^aknow
That I gave her grain, new wine, and oil,
And multiplied her silver and gold—
Which they prepared for Baal.

9 “Therefore I will return and take away
My grain in its time
And My new wine in its season,
And will take back My wool and My linen,
Given to cover her nakedness.

10 Now ^aI will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,
And no one shall deliver her from My hand.

11 ^aI will also cause all her mirth to cease,
Her feast days,
Her New Moons,
Her Sabbaths—
All her appointed feasts.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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thorns . . . wall— (Job 19:8; Lamentations 3:7, Lamentations 3:9). The hindrances which the captivity interposed between Israel and her idols. As she attributes all her temporal blessings to idols, I will reduce her to straits in which, when she in vain has sought help from false gods, she will at last seek Me as her only God and Husband, as at the first (Isaiah 54:5; Jeremiah 3:14; Ezekiel 16:8).

then—before Israel's apostasy, under Jeroboam. The way of duty is hedged about with thorns; it is the way of sin that is hedged up with thorns. Crosses in an evil course are God's hedges to turn us from it. Restraining grace and restraining providences (even sicknesses and trials) are great blessings when they stop us in a course of sin. Compare Luke 15:14-18, "I will arise, and go to my father." So here, "I will go, and return," etc.; crosses in the both cases being sanctified to produce this effect.

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