Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 4:10

10 For they shall eat, and not have enough : they shall commit whoredom and shall not increase : because they have left off to take heed to the LORD .

Or, And, Heb. This is another part of their punishment, and 'tis better render'd as a particular part of their Curse, than as a cause of that which was spoken in the former verse.

In ver. 8. they are said to eat up the sin of that people, i. e. by sinful Courses they project for their livelihood, now comes the Curse God will punish this sin with. He will with-hold his blessing, they shall not be nourished, not satisfied with what they eat. See Hag. 1.6.

Though they multiply wives to relieve them under the Curse of barrenness and want of Children, or by Fornication seek to multiply their off-spring, though they do this which they ought not to do.

They shall not hereby increase the number of their Children, either the women shall not bear, or the children not live.

They have Apostatized and turn'd from the true God, from his Worship and Law.

Marginal references: Lev. 26.26. Mic. 6.14.