Hosea 2:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Therefore 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.

Hosea 2:9 —

Old words in this verse

corn: — grain, such as wheat or barley.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Haggai 1:6-11
Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. …
Malachi 3:18
Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Malachi 1:4
Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.
Hosea 2:3
Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
Hosea 9:2
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

Topics

Ingratitude Israel, Prophecies Concerning Murmuring Wicked (people)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-13)

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 (Ps. 7:12); but, if he turn, he will sheathe it. They did not turn, and therefore all this came upon them: and its being threatened before shows that it was the execution of a divine sentence upon them…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. my corn ... my wool ... my flax--in contrast to “my bread ... my wool ... my flax,” (Ho 2:5). Compare also Ho 2:21-23, on God as the great First Cause giving these through secondary instruments in nature. “Return, and take away,” is equivalent to, “I will take back again,” namely, by sending storms, locusts, Assyrian enemies, &c. “Therefore,” that is, because she did not acknowledge Me as the G…