Hosea 9:4

“They shall not offer wine [offerings] to the Lord, etc.] This is either a threatening of the cessation of sacrifices, being carried into Assyria, a strange land, where it was not lawful to offer sacrifice, there being no temple nor altar to offer in or at; and so as they would not offer to the Lord when they should, now they shall not if they would: or this respects not, the future time of their exile, but their present time now, as Kimchi observes; and so is a reproof of their present sacrifices, which are forbidden to be observed; because they were offered not in faith, nor in sincerity, but hypocritically, and before their calves: besides, the future tease is sometimes put for the…”

“offer wine offerings--literally, "pour as a libation (Exo 30:9; Lev 23:13). neither shall they be pleasing unto him--as being offered on a profane soil. sacrifices . . . as the bread of mourners--which was unclean (Deu 26:14; Jer 16:7; Eze 24:17). their bread for their soul--their offering for the expiation of their soul [CALVIN], (Lev 17:11). Rather, "their bread for their sustenance ('soul' being often used for the animal life, Gen 14:21, Margin) shall not come into the Lord's house"; it shall only subserve their own uses, not My worship.”

“They shall not offer wine-offerings to the Lord - The “wine” or “drink-offering” was annexed to all their burnt-offerings, and so to all their public sacrifices. The burnt-offering (and with it the meal and the wine-offering,) was “the” daily morning and evening sacrifice Exodus 29:38-41; Numbers 28:3-8, and the sacrifice of the Sabbath Numbers 28:9. It was offered, together with the sin-offering, on the first of the month, the Passover, the feast of the first-fruits, of trumpets, of tabernacles, and the Day of Atonement, besides the special sacrifices of that day Numbers 28:11, Numbers 28:15-16, Numbers 28:19, Numbers 28:22, Numbers 28:26, Numbers 28:7, Numbers 28:30; Numbers 29:11, Numbers…”

“Wine - offerings - These were appointed to be offered with the morning and evening sacrifice, the sacrifice representing Christ, and pardon by him; the wine - offering, the spirit of grace: the sacrifice repeated, daily continued their peace and pardon. All this shall be withheld from these captives. Pleasing - If any should venture to offer. As the bread of mourners - It shall as much pollute them and displease God as if one mourning for the dead, and forbidden to sacrifice, should venture to do it. Their bread - Their bread which they were bound to offer with their sacrifices, they will now have no opportunity of bringing to the Lord's house. Hosea 9:5”

“9:4 In exile, the Israelites could not offer legitimate sacrifices because any sacrifice in a foreign land was unclean and defiled.”

“shall not: Hos 3:4; Joe 1:13, Joe 2:14 neither: Hos 8:13; Isa 1:11-15, Isa 57:6, Isa 66:3; Jer 6:20; Amo 4:4, Amo 4:5, Amo 5:22; Mal 1:9, Mal 1:10 as: Num 19:11; Deu 26:14; Neh 8:9-12; Eze 24:17, Eze 24:22; Mal 2:13 their bread: Exo 40:23; Lev 17:11, Lev 21:6, Lev 21:8, Lev 21:17, Lev 21:21; Num 4:7, Num 28:2; Amo 8:11, Amo 8:12; Joh 6:51 Hosea 9:5”