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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 2:21 - 2:21
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in that day - of grace to Israel.
heavens ... hear the earth - personification. However many be the intermediate instruments, God is the Great First Cause of all nature’s phenomena. God had threatened (Hos 2:9) He would take back His corn, His wine, etc. Here, on the contrary, God promises to hearken to the skies, as it were, supplicating Him to fill them with rain to pour on the earth; and that the skies again would hearken to the earth begging for a supply of the rain it requires; and again, that the earth would hearken to the corn, wine, and oil, begging it to bring them forth; and these again would hear Jezreel, that is, would fulfil Israel’s prayers for a supply of them. Israel is now no longer “Jezreel” in the sense, “God will scatter” (Hos 1:4), but in the sense, “God will plant” (Hos 1:11).