Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.
Therefore will I return, and take away - i:e., I will take back again, by sending storms, locusts, and Assyrian invaders. I will turn from love to displeasure, and from bestowing the bounties of the earth to withholding them. The Hebrew implies a reversal of God's mode of treating them, in righteous retribution for their not acknowledging the debt of gratitude due to Him as the giver.
My grain ... my wool ... my flax - in contrast to Israel's calling the bread, wool, and flax "my bread ... my wool ... my flax," etc. (Hosea 2:5) God calls them solely His, "My corn, my wool, my flax." Compare also Hosea 2:21-23, on God, as the great First Cause, giving these through secondary instruments in nature: "I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; and the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel." "Therefore" - i:e., because she did not acknowledge me as the Giver.
In the time thereof - in the vintage, the olive-gathering season and the harvest time.