God’s Word Translation
Hosea 9:2
2There won’t be enough grain to feed people. There won’t be enough wine to go around.
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
1Israel, don’t rejoice. Don’t celebrate as other nations do. You have been unfaithful to your God. You have sold sex on every threshing floor. There won’t be enough grain to feed people. There won’t be enough wine to go around. 3The people of Ephraim won’t stay in the Lord’s land. They will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria. 4They won’t pour wine offerings to the Lord, and their sacrifices won’t please him. Their sacrifices will be like the food that mourners eat. All who eat this food will be unclean. Their food will only satisfy their hunger. It will not be brought ⌞as an offering⌟ to the Lord’s temple.
Read all of Hosea 9Hosea 9:2 word by word
גֹּ֥רֶן וָיֶ֖קֶב לֹ֣א יִרְעֵ֑ם וְתִיר֖וֹשׁ יְכַ֥חֶשׁ בָּֽהּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Hosea 9:2
- Hosea 2:9That is why I will take back my grain when it has ripened and my new wine when it’s in season. I will take away the wool and the linen that I gave her to cover her naked body.
- Isaiah 24:7New wine dries up, and grapevines waste away. All happy people groan.
- Joel 1:3Tell your children about it. Have your children tell their children. Have your grandchildren tell their children.
- Amos 4:6I left you with nothing to eat in any of your cities. I left you with no food in your entire land. And you still didn’t return to me, declares the Lord.
- Micah 6:13I have begun to strike you with heavy blows and to ruin you because of your sins.
- Haggai 1:9“You expected a lot, but you received a little. When you bring something home, I blow it away. Why?” declares the Lord of Armies. “It’s because my house lies in ruins while each of you is busy working on your own house.
- Haggai 2:16When anyone came to a pile of grain ⌞to get⌟ 20 measures, there would be only 10. And when anyone came to a wine vat to draw out 50 measures, there would be only 20 in it.
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
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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
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