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Hosea describes Israel as &#8220;a vine devoid of fruit fitting for it&#8221; and complains that &#8220;when the bountiful fruits increased, they [Israel] increased the altars [for idolatry]&#8221; \u2013 prosperity did not increase their religiosity and righteousness; instead, it contributed to the spread of idol worship and licentiousness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Hosea clearly laments what affluence has done to the nation, this prophecy is likely an earlier speech dating back to the reign of the last successful king of Israel, Jeroboam the son of Jehoash (792-751 BCE). 2 Kings 14 noted this anomaly \u2013 God&#8217;s kindness to the people despite their not being deserving of His blessing \u2013 and noted &#8220;He restored the boundary of Israel from the approach to Hamath until the sea of the Arabah \u2026 For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel becoming increasingly severe, with neither stored property nor free property, and no one to help Israel.&#8221; Radak understands God&#8217;s behavior as stemming from a sense of pity; Malbim suggests that God has abandoned the rod of punishment, sensing that the Jewish people were no longer responding to traditional models of discipline. Instead, Malbim suggests that God is hopeful that through generosity, the people will come to appreciate their gifts and return to him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The commentators debate which fruits Hosea intended with his metaphor. Rashi argues that the fruit that Israel has eliminated is the divine service. While Malbim suggests that Hosea is missing the ways of righteousness, Radak argues that the fruit are the country&#8217;s wealth and children, who have been taken captive by invaders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, it was Isaiah who would develop the metaphor of the vine gone astray into one of the most lasting images in the Bible \u2013 the song of the vineyard (Is. 5):<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will now sing for my beloved the song of my beloved about his vineyard; my beloved had a vineyard \u2026 And he fenced it in, and he cleared it of stones, and he planted it with the choicest vines, and he built a tower in its midst &#8211; he hoped to produce grapes, but it produced wild berries. And now, dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge now between me and between my vineyard. What more could I have done for my vineyard that I did not do in it? Why did I hope to produce grapes and it produced wild berries? And now, I will inform you what I am going to do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; breach its walls, and it shall be trampled. And I will make it a desolation\u2026. 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