Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 2:12

12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig-trees , whereof she hath said, These are my rewards , that my lovers have given me : and I will make them a forest , and the beasts of the field shall eat them .

God will do it either by blasting, or by the Assyrians, who as other invaders, shall spoil all.

Make very desolate, or lay waste.

These two were mentioned, but all other Fruit-Trees are meant.

This was in peculiar manner the sin for which Israel was punisht thus, they gave the praise of the fruitfulness of these Trees, and the abundance of them, to Idols, rob'd God of the praise due for them, therefore God will take them away.

Their false Gods are here made the givers of all outward blessings to Israel; vide ver. 5.

Their Vineyards and Olive-yards, and places where they planted and fenced in their Fig-trees, and other fruitful Trees.

Wild and uncultivated, the Hedges, and Fences shall be thrown up, and all run into the wildness of a Forrest, as it came to pass in the Assyrian Invasion▪

Salvage 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.

The Trees and their Fruits.

Marginal references: Heb. make desolate.; Psal. 80.12, 13. Isa. 5.5.