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Therefore shall the land mourn — Dumb inanimate nature seems to rejoice and to be in unison with our sense of joy, when bedewed and fresh …

The mourning of the land is the judgment of famine, which falls not only on living people, but on all living things (the Septuagint has introduced …

The Prophet now expresses more clearly the dispute which he mentions in the first verse. It now evidently appears that it was not a judgment expres…

Therefore shall the land mourn Because of the calamities on it, the devastations made in it; nothing growing upon it, thr…

Hosea reproves for immorality, as well as idolatry. There was no truth, mercy, or knowledge of God in the land: it was full of murders ([Reference …
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes