Hosea 9:2

2 Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people; the new wine will fail them.

Hosea 9:2 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
English Standard Version (ESV)
2 Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them.
New Living Translation (NLT)
2 So now your harvests will be too small to feed you. There will be no grapes for making new wine.
The Message Bible (MSG)
2 All that party food won't fill you up. You'll end up hungrier than ever.
American Standard Version (ASV)
2 The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
2 There won't be enough grain to feed people. There won't be enough wine to go around.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
2 Threshing floor and wine vat will not sustain them, and the new wine will fail them.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
2 But soon there won't be any grain or wine to feed you. There won't even be any fresh wine.

Hosea 9:2 Meaning and Commentary

Hosea 9:2

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" F19; 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 ) ( Haggai 1:6 Haggai 1:10 Haggai 1:11 ) ( 2:16 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F19 (hb vxky) "mentietur in ea", Pagninus, Montanus, Zanchius; "mentietur isti", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Liveleus, Schmidt.

Hosea 9:2 In-Context

1 Do not rejoice, Israel; do not be jubilant like the other nations. For you have been unfaithful to your God; you love the wages of a prostitute at every threshing floor.
2 Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people; the new wine will fail them.
3 They will not remain in the LORD’s land; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
4 They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, nor will their sacrifices please him. Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat them will be unclean. This food will be for themselves; it will not come into the temple of the LORD.
5 What will you do on the day of your appointed festivals, on the feast days of the LORD?

Cross References 1

  • 1. Isaiah 24:7; Hosea 2:9; Joel 1:10
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