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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)So now your harvests will be too small to feed you. There will be no grapes for making new wine.

Context of Hosea 9:2

1Do 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. Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people; the new wine will fail them. 3They will not remain in the Lord’s land; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria. 4They 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.

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 2:9“Therefore I will take away my grain when it ripens, and my new wine when it is ready. I will take back my wool and my linen, intended to cover her naked body.
• Isaiah 24:7The new wine dries up and the vine withers; all the merrymakers groan.
• Joel 1:3Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
• Amos 4:6“I gave you empty stomachs in every city and lack of bread in every town, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.
• Micah 6:13Therefore, I have begun to destroy you, to ruin you because of your sins.
• Haggai 1:9“You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?” declares the Lord Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house.
• Haggai 2:16When anyone came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When anyone went to a wine vat to draw fifty measures, 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

Topics related to Hosea 9:2

• Backsliders
• 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