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Hosea 9:2

The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not give them food; there will be no new wine for them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Threshing;   The Topic Concordance - Corruption;   Idolatry;   Sacrifice;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Threshing;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Baal;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Uzziah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hosea;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Winepress;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Idolatry,;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cornfloor;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Threshing floor and wine vat will not sustain them,and the new wine will fail them.
Hebrew Names Version
The threshing floor and the winepress won't feed them, And the new wine will fail her.
King James Version
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
English Standard Version
Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them.
New American Standard Bible
Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them, And the new wine will fail them.
New Century Version
But the threshing floor and the winepress will not feed the people, and there won't be enough new wine.
Amplified Bible
The threshing floor and the wine press will no longer feed them, And the new wine will fail them [because they failed to honor the God who provides].
Geneva Bible (1587)
The floore, and the wine presse shall not feede them, and the newe wine shall faile in her.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them, And the new wine will fail them.
Legacy Standard Bible
Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them,And the new wine will deceive them.
Berean Standard Bible
The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.
Contemporary English Version
But you will run short of grain and wine,
Complete Jewish Bible
Threshing-floor and winepress won't feed them, and new wine will disappoint her.
Darby Translation
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
Easy-to-Read Version
But the grain from those threshing floors will not provide enough food for Israel. There will not be enough wine for Israel.
George Lamsa Translation
But the threshing floor and the winepress shall not satisfy them, and the oil shall fail them.
Good News Translation
But soon you will not have enough grain and olive oil, and there will be no wine.
Lexham English Bible
Threshing floor and wine vat will not feed them, and new wine will fail her.
Literal Translation
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
American Standard Version
The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The threshing-floor and the wine-press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
King James Version (1611)
The floore and the winepresse shall not feede them, and the new wine shall faile in her.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The corne floore and the wine presse shall not feede them: and the newe wine shall fayle them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The threshing-floor and wine-press knew them not, and the wine disappointed them.
English Revised Version
The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
World English Bible
The threshing floor and the winepress won't feed them, And the new wine will fail her.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The cornfloor and pressour schal not feede hem, and wyn schal lie to hem.
Update Bible Version
The threshing-floor and the wine press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
Webster's Bible Translation
The floor and the wine-press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
New English Translation
Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, and new wine only deceives them.
New King James Version
The threshing floor and the winepress Shall not feed them, And the new wine shall fail in her.
New Living Translation
So now your harvests will be too small to feed you. There will be no grapes for making new wine.
New Life Bible
The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not feed them. And they will not have enough new wine.
New Revised Standard
Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Threshing-floor and wine-vat, will not feed them, and, new wine, will deny them.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the wine shall deceive them.
Revised Standard Version
Threshing floor and winevat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them.
Young's Literal Translation
Floor and wine-press do not delight them, And new wine doth fail in her,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore shall they nomore enioye the cornefloores and wyne presses, and their swete wyne shal fayle the.

Contextual Overview

1 Have no joy, O Israel, and do not be glad like the nations; for you have been untrue to your God; your desire has been for the loose woman's reward on every grain-floor. 2 The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not give them food; there will be no new wine for them. 3 They will have no resting-place in the Lord's land, but Ephraim will go back to Egypt, and they will take unclean food in Assyria. 4 They will give no wine offering to the Lord, they will not make offerings ready for him; their bread will be like the bread of those in sorrow; all who take it will be unclean, because their bread will be only for their desire, it will not come into the house of the Lord. 5 What will you do on the day of worship, and on the day of the feast of the Lord? 6 For see, they are going away into Assyria; Egypt will get them together, Memphis will be their last resting-place; their fair silver vessels will be covered over with field plants, and thorns will come up in their tents.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

floor: Hosea 2:9, Hosea 2:12, Isaiah 24:7-12, Joel 1:3-7, Joel 1:9-13, Amos 4:6-9, Amos 4:5-11, Micah 6:13-16, Haggai 1:9, Haggai 2:16

winepress: or, winefat

Reciprocal: Numbers 18:27 - the corn Hosea 3:1 - love flagons Joel 1:10 - the new Joel 1:12 - joy Amos 5:17 - in

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.
Genesis 2:19
And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.
Genesis 9:4
But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.
Genesis 9:8
And God said to Noah and to his sons,
Genesis 9:20
In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden.
Genesis 9:22
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to his two brothers outside.
Genesis 9:23
And Shem and Japheth took a robe, and putting it on their backs went in with their faces turned away, and put it over their father so that they might not see him unclothed.
Genesis 35:5
So they went on their journey: and the fear of God was on the towns round about, so that they made no attack on the sons of Jacob.
Leviticus 26:6
And I will give you peace in the land, and you will take your rest and no one will give you cause for fear; and I will put an end to all evil beasts in the land, and no sword of war will go through your land.
Leviticus 26:22
I will let loose the beasts of the field among you, and they will take away your children and send destruction on your cattle, so that your numbers will become small and your roads become waste.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The floor and the winepress shall not feed them,.... Though their expectations from their worship of idols were large, they should find themselves mistaken; for there would not be a sufficiency of corn on the floor, nor of wine in the press, to supply them with what was necessary for their sustenance; either through a blight upon their fields and vineyards, or through the invasion of an enemy, treading them down, and spoiling and foraging them: or else supposing a sufficient quantity of corn and wine got in; yet those blessings should be either turned into curses, or carried off by the enemy, that they should do then, no good; or if they enjoyed them, yet they should receive no nourishment from them; but should become lean, and look like starved and famishing creatures in the midst of plenty; by all which it would appear that their idols could neither give them a sufficiency of provisions, nor make those nourishing to them they had:

and the new wine shall fail in her; in the congregation or land of Israel: or, "shall lie to her" s; shall not answer their expectations, but disappoint and deceive them; whereas they expected great plenty from the promising prospect of the vines, these by one means or another should be destroyed, so that they would yield but little, and balk them; see Habakkuk 3:17.

s יכחש בה "mentietur in ea", Pagninus, Montanus, Zanchius; "mentietur isti", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Liveleus, Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The floor and winepress shall not feed them - God turneth away wholly from the adulterous people, and telleth others, how justly they shall be dealt with first for this. “Because she loved My reward, and despised Myself, the reward itself shall be taken away from her.” When the blessings of God have been abused to sin, He, in mercy and judgment, takes them away. He cut them off, in order to show that He alone, who now withheld them, had before given them. When they thought themselves most secure, when the grain was stored on the floor, and the grapes were in the press, then God would deprive them of them.

And the new wine shall fail in her, or shall fail her - Literally, “shall lie to her.” It may be, he would say, that as Israel had lied to his God, and had “spoken lies against Him” Hosea 7:13, so, in requital, the fruits of the earth should disappoint her, and holding out hopes which never came to pass, should, as it were, lie to her, and in the bitterness of her disappointment, represent to her her own failure to her God. The prophet teaches through the workings of nature, and gives, as it were, a tongue to them .


 
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