Hosea 2:12

her vines and her fig trees The Hebrew has -her vine and her fig-tree". It would seem as if here, as in Joel 1:7, Israel personified were represented with a vine and a fig-tree, like any individual Israelite (1 Kings 4:25). But A. V. gives the right sense.

my rewards The -hire" or -reward" of a prostitute is meant (comp. Hosea 9:1, and see on Hosea 2:5).

a forest A frequent feature in descriptions of desolation (comp. Isaiah 5:6; Isaiah 7:23; Isaiah 32:13; Micah 3:12). -A forest" however is misleading; the word (ya-ar) often means low, tangled brushwood (e.g. Song of Solomon 2:3; Isaiah 21:13; 1 Samuel 14:25-26). The idea in the prophet's mind is inaccessibility, not stateliness (like that of forest-trees).

the beasts of the field -Field" = open country. The enemies of Israel are compared to wild beasts in Isaiah 56:9; Ezekiel 34:25.