Hosea 2:9

“Therefore will I return, and take away, etc.] Or, “take away again”f33; an usual Hebraism: my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof; for though these are the gifts of God to men for their use, and to dispose of for the good of others; yet he retains his property in them, and can and will call them to an account for their stewardship; and, when he pleases, take away both their office, and the good things they were intrusted with, not making a right use of them; and this he does in his own appointed time and season, or at such a time when these are at the best, and the greatest good is expected from them, and which therefore is the more afflictive; as in the time of…”

“my corn . . . my wool . . . my flax--in contrast to "my bread . . . my wool . . . my flax," (Hos 2:5). Compare also Hos 2:21-23, on God as the great First Cause giving these through secondary instruments in nature. "Return, and take away," is equivalent to, "I will take back again," namely, by sending storms, locusts, Assyrian enemies, &c. "Therefore," that is, because she did not acknowledge Me as the Giver. in the time thereof--in the harvest-time.”

“Therefore I will return - God is, as it were, absent from men, when He lets them go on in their abuse of His gifts. “His judgments are far above out of their sight.” He returns to them, and His presence is felt in chastisements, as it might have been in mercies. He is not out of sight or out of mind, then. Others render it, “I will turn, i. e. I will do other than before; I will turn” from love to displeasure, from pouring out benefits to the infliction of chastisements, from giving abundance of all things to punishing them with the want of all things. I will take away My corn in the time thereof - God shows us that His gifts come from Him, either by giving them when we almost despair of…”

“Take away - I will resume all I gave. In the time thereof - When they should gather it in, as being ripe. Hosea 2:10”

“2:9-13 God’s first judgment (2:6-7) was to restrict the Israelites; this second judgment would be to remove and destroy what he alone had given them.”

“will I: Dan 11:13; Joe 2:14; Mal 1:4, Mal 3:18 take: Hos 2:3; Isa 3:18-26, Isa 17:10, Isa 17:11; Eze 16:27, Eze 16:39, Eze 23:26; Zep 1:13; Hag 1:6-11; Hag 2:16, Hag 2:17 recover: or, take away Hosea 2:10”

“"Therefore will I take back my corn at its time, and my must at its season, and tear away my wool and my flax for the covering of her nakedness." Because Israel had not regarded the blessings it received as gifts of its God, and used them for His glory, the Lord would take them away from it. אשׁוּב ולקחתּי are to be connected, so that אשׁוּב has the force of an adverb, not however in the sense of simple repetition, as it usually does, but with the idea of return, as in Jer 12:15, viz., to take again = to take back. "My corn," etc., is the corn, the must, which I have given. "At its time," i.e., at the time when men expect corn, new wine, etc., viz., at the time of harvest, when men feel…”