For she did not know - The prophet, having in summary (Hosea 2:5–7) related her fall, her chastisement, and her recovery, begins…

Translate in the present tense: and she does not know that it is I who gave, etc. This yearning of Jehovah over the results of hi…

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.

It …

God here amplifies the ingratitude of the people, because they did not understand from where such abundance of good things came. She understood…

For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil ,
&c.] This is a reason, not of her resolution to return to her f…

God threatens what He would do to this treacherous, idolatrous people. They did not turn; therefore, all this came upon them, and it is written for…