Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 9:12

12 Though they bring up their children , yet will I bereave them z, that there shall not be a man left : yea, wo also to them when I depart from them .

Or suppose neither of these but that their Children live, grow up, and come to some maturity, yet God provoked by their sins, will deprive them of their Children by Famine, or by Civil Wars which were long and bloody on each other; or by Pestilence, or by Captivity, and dispersing them among Enemies, to whom they shall be Slaves; and as Slaves beget Children not to themselves, but to their Masters.

There shall be a total extirpation of them, and their memory, or else I will cut them off from among men as the phrase will bear.

To compleat their misery, I will leave them, I will depart from them. It is sad to lose Children, it is sadder to lose their God.