When men forget, or consider not that their comforts come from God, he will often in mercy take them away, to bring them to think upon their folly and danger.

This verse depicts God's lament over the people's failure to acknowledge His all-encompassing blessings and their preference for false gods like Baal.

God gives us wisdom, strength, and property; and we use them to sin against him with the greater skill, power, and effect!

Hosea 2:8 She has not acknowledged that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil, who lavished on her the silver and gold— which they used ...

"MISUSED GIFTS" I. FAILURE TO RECOGNIZE THE SOURCE OF OUR BLESSINGS. A. We need to remember, "Every good gift and every perfect gift comes from.

New International Version She has not acknowledged that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil, who lavished on her the silver and gold— ...

This is a reason, not of her resolution to return to her first husband, but to go after lovers, and of her ascribing these things to them.

David Guzik commentary on Hosea 2, where God brings charges against Israel because of their sin, and how He will judge the nation before restoration comes.

When men forget, or consider not that their comforts come from God, he will often in mercy take them away, to bring them to think upon their folly and danger.