Charles Ellicott Commentary Hosea 4:3

"Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away." — Hosea 4:3 (ASV)

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 into the enumeration the creeping things of the earth). Even the fishes of the sea are swept away. There is plague on fish as well as disease on cattle, and starvation of the birds of heaven.