UHoseya 2:12

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

12 Ndiya kuyibharhisa imidiliya yakhe, nemikhiwane yakhe, abesithi yena, Lutshedo lwam olu, endalunikwayo zizithandane zam; ndoyenza ibe lihlathi, idliwe ziinyamakazi zasendle.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

destroy: Heb. make desolate

These: Hosea 2:5, Hosea 9:1

I will: Psalms 80:12, Isaiah 5:5, Isaiah 7:23, Isaiah 29:17, Isaiah 32:13-15, Jeremiah 26:18, Micah 3:12

Reciprocal: Isaiah 32:10 - for Ezekiel 16:33 - give Hosea 2:15 - I will Hosea 9:2 - floor Joel 1:7 - laid Micah 1:7 - the hires

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,.... Which are mentioned for the rest, being the most fruitful and beneficial: this was done when Judea was invaded, overrun and wasted, by the Roman army; and when many were cut down, as Josephus observes, to build forts, and cast up mounts against Jerusalem; so that, he, says l, the appearance of the earth was miserable, for what before was adorned with trees and gardens, looked now like a wilderness:

whereof she hath said, these are my rewards that my lovers have given me; alluding to the hire of harlots, given them by their gallants; these she ascribed, as she did before her bread, water, wool, flax; and oil, Hosea 2:5, not to God, the author and giver of them, but to the people her lovers, as the Targum; or to her idols, or to her beloved tenets, and doing according to them; and which is here mentioned as a reason of the divine resentment, and why he destroyed these fruitful trees:

and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them; make the vines and fig trees like forest trees, barren and unfruitful; the fruitful land of Judea should be turned into a forest, or become like a desert or wilderness, and all the fruits of it should be eaten up by wild beasts; by their enemies, compared to the beasts of the field, particularly the Romans, the fourth beast; see Isaiah 56:9.

l De Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 1. sect. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees - Before, God had threatened to take away the fruits in their seasons; now He says, that he will take away all hope for the future; not the fruit only, but the trees which bare it. “The vine is a symbol of joy, the fig of sweetness” (see Judges 9:11, Judges 9:13). It was the plague, which God in former times laid upon those, out of the midst of whom He took them to be His people (Psalms 105:33; see Jeremiah 5:17). “He smote their vines also and their fig trees, and brake the trees of their coasts.” Now that they had become like the pagan, He dealt with them as with the pagan.

Of which she said, these are my rewards - Literally “my hire.” It is the special word, used of the payment to the adulteress, or degraded woman, and so continues the likeness, by which he had set forth the foulness of her desertion of God.

And I will make them a forest - The vines and fig-trees which had aforetime been their wealth, and full of beauty, should, when neglected, run wild, and become the harbor of the wild beasts Which should prey upon them. So to the wicked God causes, “that the things which should have been for their wealth should be an occasion of falling” Psalms 69:22. They contain in themselves the sources of their own decay.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 2:12. These are my rewards — They attributed all the blessings of Providence as rewards received from the idols which they worshipped.