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God will do it either by blasting, or by the Assyrians, who, as other invaders, shall spoil all.
Destroy; make very desolate, or lay waste.
Her vines and her fig trees: these two were mentioned, but all other fruit trees are meant.
Whereof she hath said, These are my rewards: this was in peculiar manner the sin for which Israel was punished thus, they gave the praise of the fruitfulness of these trees, and the abundance of them, to idols, robbed God of the praise due for them, therefore God will take them away.
That my lovers have given me: their false gods are here made the givers of all outward blessings to Israel: see Hos_2:5.
I will make them; their vineyards and oliveyards, and places where they planted and fenced in their fig trees, and other fruitful trees.
A forest; wild and uncultivated, the hedges and fences shall be thrown up, and all run into the wildness of a forest, as it came to pass in the Assyrian invasion.
The beasts of the field; savage men, such as the Assyrians were; or rather in the letter, the beasts of the field should break down their branches, and devour them, and pull off the fruit, as foxes pull the grapes, or wild boars of the wood root up and eat the tender and sappy branches and springles.
Shall eat them; the trees and their fruits.