Hosea 2:9

And now in order radically to cure the Israelites of this error (viz. that their good things have come from the Baals) the people are for a time to be deprived of these blessings.

return and take away Rather, take back again.

my corn… my wine… my wool… my flax For though Israel may speak, as in Hosea 2:7, of - mybread and mywater," these things were really the property of Jehovah, who could withdraw them at any moment, even in the -time" or season of the corn and the new wine, when the husbandman was counting implicitly on the harvest and the vintage.

recover Or, rescue, viz. from the misuse to which these gifts would be put by the idolaters.

given to cover her nakedness Thus reminding Israel that in her natural condition she was utterly helpless and destitute. Comp. Ezekiel 16:8, which evidently alludes to this passage.