Hosea 10:10

“[It is] in my desire that I should chastise them, etc.] Or, “bind them”f196, and carry them captive; and by so doing correct them for their sins they have so long continued in: this the Lord had in his heart to do, and was determined upon it, and would do it with pleasure, for the glorifying of his justice, since they had so long and so much abused his clemency and goodness: and the people shall be gathered against them; the Assyrians, who, at the command of the Lord, would come and invade their land, besiege their city, and take it, and bind them, and carry them captive: when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows; when, like heifers untamed, and bound in a yoke to plough, do not…”

“my desire . . . chastise--expressing God's strong inclination to vindicate His justice against sin, as being the infinitely holy God (Deu 28:63). the people--Foreign invaders "shall be gathered against them." when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows--image from two oxen ploughing together side by side, in two contiguous furrows: so the Israelites shall join themselves, to unite their powers against all dangers, but it will not save them from My destroying them [CALVIN]. Their "two furrows" may refer to their two places of setting up the calves, their ground of confidence, Dan and Beth-el; or, the two divisions of the nation, Israel and Judah, "in their two furrows," that is, in…”

“It is in My desire that I should chastise them - God “doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men” Lamentations 3:33. Grievous then must be the cause of punishment, when God not only chastens people, but, so to speak, longs to chasten them, when He chastens them without any let or hindrance from His mercy. Yet so God had said; “It shall come to pass, that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you and to bring you to nought” Deuteronomy 28:63. God willed to enforce His justice, with no reserve whatever from His mercy. His whole mind, so to speak, is to punish them. God is “without passions.” Yet, in order…”

“The people - The Assyrians. For their two transgressions - Perhaps, their revolt from David's house, and their idolatry. Hosea 10:11”

“in my: Deu 28:63; Isa 1:24; Jer 15:6; Eze 5:13, Eze 16:42 and the: Hos 8:1, Hos 8:10; Jer 16:16, Jer 21:4; Eze 16:37, Eze 23:9, Eze 23:46; Mic 4:10-13; Zac 14:2, Zac 14:3; Mat 22:7 they: etc. or, I shall bind them for their two transgressions, or, in their two habitations. Hosea 10:11”