Hosea 9:2

Hosea 9:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
• New International Version (NIV)Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people; the new wine will fail them.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them.
• New King James Version (NKJV)The threshing floor and the winepress Shall not feed them, And the new wine shall fail in her.

Context of Hosea 9:2

1People of Israel, do not shout with joy, as the people of other nations do at their festivals. You have not been faithful to me, your God. Like a prostitute, you sell yourselves to foreign gods that you worship on the threshing floors. But the threshing floors will not provide enough grain to feed the people. The winepresses will not give them enough new wine. 3The Israelites will not remain in the Lord's land. They will have to return to Egypt. In Assyria, they will have to eat food that is unclean. 4They will not pour out wine as an offering to the Lord. Their sacrifices will not please him. Instead, their offerings will be like food that people eat at a funeral. Anyone who eats it becomes unclean. They may eat the food to feed themselves, but they cannot offer it to the Lord in his temple.

Hosea 9:2 word by word

גֹּ֥רֶן וָיֶ֖קֶב לֹ֣א יִרְעֵ֑ם וְתִיר֖וֹשׁ יְכַ֥חֶשׁ בָּֽהּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• The floorגֹּ֫רֶןgôren · threshing floorH1637
• and the winepressיֶ֫קֶבyeqeb · wineH3342
• shall not feedרָעָהrâ‛âh · to pastureH7462
• them, and the new wineתִּירוֹשׁtîyrôsh tîyrôsh · new wineH8492
• shall failכָּחַשׁkâchash · to deceiveH3584

Cross-references for Hosea 9:2

• Hosea 2:9So now I will take back the grain and the new wine that I gave her at harvest time. I will take away the wool and the linen. She will have no clothes to cover her bare body.
• Isaiah 24:7There is no new wine and the vines are dying. The people who were happy to drink the wine are now sad.
• Joel 1:3Tell this to your children. And they must tell it to their children. And their children must tell it to their own children.
• Amos 4:6‘Earlier I made you hungry in all your cities. There was no food anywhere. But you did not start to pray to me again.’ The Lord says this!
• Micah 6:13So I will make you so sick that you will never get well. I have begun to destroy you because you have done bad things.
• Haggai 1:9You thought that you would get a lot of food from the crops that grow in your fields. But only a few plants grew. When you brought your food home, it quickly disappeared. I blew it away! Why do you think all this happened? It happened because my temple is still a heap of stones. At the same time, you all work hard to build your own houses. I, the Almighty Lord, am telling you this!
• Haggai 2:16In those days, you hoped to get 20 bags of grain from your fields. But you only got ten bags. You hoped to get 50 jars of wine from your grapes. But you only got 20 jars.

Commentaries on Hosea 9:2

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2The 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2As punishment for their actions, the Lord would reduce the Israelites' harvests. This would cause them to go hungry (compare Haggai 1:3–11).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. (Ho 2:9, 12). fail--disappoint her expectation.Read the comment

Topics related to Hosea 9:2

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• Threshing

In the dictionaries

• Cornfloor
• Deeply
• Depart
• Mad
• Miscarrying
• Hosea
• Zechariah, Book of
• Idolatry

Commentaries on Hosea 9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings