Revised Literal Translation
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
1Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every threshing floor. The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. 3They shall not dwell in Yhwh's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. 4They shall not offer wine offerings to Yhwh, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of Yhwh.
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גֹּ֥רֶן וָיֶ֖קֶב לֹ֣א יִרְעֵ֑ם וְתִיר֖וֹשׁ יְכַ֥חֶשׁ בָּֽהּ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Hosea 9:2
- Hosea 2:9Therefore will I return, and take away my grain in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.
- Isaiah 24:7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
- Joel 1:3Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
- Amos 4:6And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Yhwh.
- Micah 6:13Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
- Haggai 1:9Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith Yhwh of Armies. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
- Haggai 2:16Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but 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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Notes
- 1. Hosea 9:2 winepress: or, winefat. ↩
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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