New English Translation
Hosea 9:2
2Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, and new wine only deceives them.
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
1O Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly like the nations, for you are unfaithful to your God. You love to receive a prostitute's wages on all the floors where you thresh your grain. Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, and new wine only deceives them. 3They will not remain in the Lord’s land. Ephraim will return to Egypt; they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria. 4They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the Lord; they will not please him with their sacrifices. Their sacrifices will be like bread eaten while in mourning; all those who eat them will make themselves ritually unclean. For their bread will be only to satisfy their appetite; it will not come into the temple of the Lord.
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גֹּ֥רֶן וָיֶ֖קֶב לֹ֣א יִרְעֵ֑ם וְתִיר֖וֹשׁ יְכַ֥חֶשׁ בָּֽהּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Hosea 9:2
- Hosea 2:9Therefore, I will take back my grain during the harvest time and my new wine when it ripens; I will take away my wool and my flax which I had provided in order to clothe her.
- Isaiah 24:7The new wine dries up, the vines shrivel up, all those who like to celebrate groan.
- Joel 1:3Tell your children about it, have your children tell their children, and their children the following generation.
- Amos 4:6“But surely I gave you no food to eat in any of your cities; you lacked food everywhere you live. Still you did not come back to me.” The Lord is speaking!
- Micah 6:13I will strike you brutally and destroy you because of your sin.
- Haggai 1:9‘You expected a large harvest, but instead there was little, and when you brought it home it disappeared right away. Why?’ asks the Lord who rules over all. ‘Because my temple remains in ruins, thanks to each of you favoring his own house!
- Haggai 2:16From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.
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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