And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;
In that day - of grace to Israel.
I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth - personification. However many be the intermediate instruments, God is the Great First Cause of all nature's phenomena. God had threatened (Hosea 2:9) He would take back again His corn, His wine, etc. Here, on the contrary, God promises to hearken to the skies, as it were, supplicating Him to fill them with rain to pour on the earth; and that the skies again would hearken to the earth begging for a supply of the rain it requires; and again, that the, earth would hearken to the grain, wine, and oil begging it to bring them forth; and these again would hear Jezreel - i:e., would fulfill Israel's prayers for a supply of them. Israel is now no longer "Jezreel" in the sense God will SCATTER (Hosea 1:4), but in the sense 'God will PLANT,' or give her abundant SEED. Yet the name shall remind her of her former just punishment for her sin, and of her present experience of God's gratuitous mercy (Hosea 1:11).