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THE MESSAGE

Hosea 9:2

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Threshing;   The Topic Concordance - Corruption;   Idolatry;   Sacrifice;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Threshing;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Baal;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Uzziah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hosea;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Winepress;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Idolatry,;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cornfloor;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Threshing floor and wine vat will not sustain them,and the new wine will fail them.
Hebrew Names Version
The threshing floor and the winepress won't feed them, And the new wine will fail her.
King James Version
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
English Standard Version
Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them.
New American Standard Bible
Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them, And the new wine will fail them.
New Century Version
But the threshing floor and the winepress will not feed the people, and there won't be enough new wine.
Amplified Bible
The threshing floor and the wine press will no longer feed them, And the new wine will fail them [because they failed to honor the God who provides].
Geneva Bible (1587)
The floore, and the wine presse shall not feede them, and the newe wine shall faile in her.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them, And the new wine will fail them.
Legacy Standard Bible
Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them,And the new wine will deceive them.
Berean Standard Bible
The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.
Contemporary English Version
But you will run short of grain and wine,
Complete Jewish Bible
Threshing-floor and winepress won't feed them, and new wine will disappoint her.
Darby Translation
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
Easy-to-Read Version
But the grain from those threshing floors will not provide enough food for Israel. There will not be enough wine for Israel.
George Lamsa Translation
But the threshing floor and the winepress shall not satisfy them, and the oil shall fail them.
Good News Translation
But soon you will not have enough grain and olive oil, and there will be no wine.
Lexham English Bible
Threshing floor and wine vat will not feed them, and new wine will fail her.
Literal Translation
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
American Standard Version
The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
Bible in Basic English
The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not give them food; there will be no new wine for them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The threshing-floor and the wine-press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
King James Version (1611)
The floore and the winepresse shall not feede them, and the new wine shall faile in her.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The corne floore and the wine presse shall not feede them: and the newe wine shall fayle them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The threshing-floor and wine-press knew them not, and the wine disappointed them.
English Revised Version
The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
World English Bible
The threshing floor and the winepress won't feed them, And the new wine will fail her.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The cornfloor and pressour schal not feede hem, and wyn schal lie to hem.
Update Bible Version
The threshing-floor and the wine press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
Webster's Bible Translation
The floor and the wine-press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
New English Translation
Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, and new wine only deceives them.
New King James Version
The threshing floor and the winepress Shall not feed them, And the new wine shall fail in her.
New Living Translation
So now your harvests will be too small to feed you. There will be no grapes for making new wine.
New Life Bible
The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not feed them. And they will not have enough new wine.
New Revised Standard
Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Threshing-floor and wine-vat, will not feed them, and, new wine, will deny them.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the wine shall deceive them.
Revised Standard Version
Threshing floor and winevat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them.
Young's Literal Translation
Floor and wine-press do not delight them, And new wine doth fail in her,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore shall they nomore enioye the cornefloores and wyne presses, and their swete wyne shal fayle the.

Contextual Overview

1 Don't waste your life in wild orgies, Israel. Don't party away your life with the heathen. You walk away from your God at the drop of a hat and like a whore sell yourself promiscuously at every sex-and-religion party on the street. All that party food won't fill you up. You'll end up hungrier than ever. At this rate you'll not last long in God 's land: Some of you are going to end up bankrupt in Egypt. Some of you will be disillusioned in Assyria. As refugees in Egypt and Assyria, you won't have much chance to worship God — Sentenced to rations of bread and water, and your souls polluted by the spirit-dirty air. You'll be starved for God , exiled from God 's own country. Will you be homesick for the old Holy Days? Will you miss festival worship of God ? Be warned! When you escape from the frying pan of disaster, you'll fall into the fire of Egypt. Egypt will give you a fine funeral! What use will all your god-inspired silver be then as you eke out a living in a field of weeds?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

floor: Hosea 2:9, Hosea 2:12, Isaiah 24:7-12, Joel 1:3-7, Joel 1:9-13, Amos 4:6-9, Amos 4:5-11, Micah 6:13-16, Haggai 1:9, Haggai 2:16

winepress: or, winefat

Reciprocal: Numbers 18:27 - the corn Hosea 3:1 - love flagons Joel 1:10 - the new Joel 1:12 - joy Amos 5:17 - in

Cross-References

Genesis 9:8
Then God spoke to Noah and his sons: "I'm setting up my covenant with you including your children who will come after you, along with everything alive around you—birds, farm animals, wild animals—that came out of the ship with you. I'm setting up my covenant with you that never again will everything living be destroyed by floodwaters; no, never again will a flood destroy the Earth."
Genesis 9:20
Noah, a farmer, was the first to plant a vineyard. He drank from its wine, got drunk and passed out, naked in his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and told his two brothers who were outside the tent. Shem and Japheth took a cloak, held it between them from their shoulders, walked backward and covered their father's nakedness, keeping their faces turned away so they did not see their father's exposed body.
Leviticus 26:6
"I'll make the country a place of peace—you'll be able to go to sleep at night without fear; I'll get rid of the wild beasts; I'll eliminate war. You'll chase out your enemies and defeat them: Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand and do away with them. I'll give you my full attention: I'll make sure you prosper, make sure you grow in numbers, and keep my covenant with you in good working order. You'll still be eating from last year's harvest when you have to clean out the barns to make room for the new crops.
Ezekiel 34:25
"‘I'll make a covenant of peace with them. I'll banish fierce animals from the country so the sheep can live safely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest. I'll make them and everything around my hill a blessing. I'll send down plenty of rain in season—showers of blessing! The trees in the orchards will bear fruit, the ground will produce, they'll feel content and safe on their land, and they'll realize that I am God when I break them out of their slavery and rescue them from their slave masters.
James 3:7
This is scary: You can tame a tiger, but you can't tame a tongue—it's never been done. The tongue runs wild, a wanton killer. With our tongues we bless God our Father; with the same tongues we curse the very men and women he made in his image. Curses and blessings out of the same mouth! My friends, this can't go on. A spring doesn't gush fresh water one day and brackish the next, does it? Apple trees don't bear strawberries, do they? Raspberry bushes don't bear apples, do they? You're not going to dip into a polluted mud hole and get a cup of clear, cool water, are you? Do you want to be counted wise, to build a reputation for wisdom? Here's what you do: Live well, live wisely, live humbly. It's the way you live, not the way you talk, that counts. Mean-spirited ambition isn't wisdom. Boasting that you are wise isn't wisdom. Twisting the truth to make yourselves sound wise isn't wisdom. It's the furthest thing from wisdom—it's animal cunning, devilish conniving. Whenever you're trying to look better than others or get the better of others, things fall apart and everyone ends up at the others' throats. Real wisdom, God's wisdom, begins with a holy life and is characterized by getting along with others. It is gentle and reasonable, overflowing with mercy and blessings, not hot one day and cold the next, not two-faced. You can develop a healthy, robust community that lives right with God and enjoy its results only if you do the hard work of getting along with each other, treating each other with dignity and honor.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The floor and the winepress shall not feed them,.... Though their expectations from their worship of idols were large, they should find themselves mistaken; for there would not be a sufficiency of corn on the floor, nor of wine in the press, to supply them with what was necessary for their sustenance; either through a blight upon their fields and vineyards, or through the invasion of an enemy, treading them down, and spoiling and foraging them: or else supposing a sufficient quantity of corn and wine got in; yet those blessings should be either turned into curses, or carried off by the enemy, that they should do then, no good; or if they enjoyed them, yet they should receive no nourishment from them; but should become lean, and look like starved and famishing creatures in the midst of plenty; by all which it would appear that their idols could neither give them a sufficiency of provisions, nor make those nourishing to them they had:

and the new wine shall fail in her; in the congregation or land of Israel: or, "shall lie to her" s; shall not answer their expectations, but disappoint and deceive them; whereas they expected great plenty from the promising prospect of the vines, these by one means or another should be destroyed, so that they would yield but little, and balk them; see Habakkuk 3:17.

s יכחש בה "mentietur in ea", Pagninus, Montanus, Zanchius; "mentietur isti", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Liveleus, Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The 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. When they thought themselves most secure, when the grain was stored on the floor, and the grapes were in the press, then God would deprive them of them.

And the new wine shall fail in her, or shall fail her - Literally, “shall lie to her.” It may be, he would say, that as Israel had lied to his God, and had “spoken lies against Him” Hosea 7:13, so, in requital, the fruits of the earth should disappoint her, and holding out hopes which never came to pass, should, as it were, lie to her, and in the bitterness of her disappointment, represent to her her own failure to her God. The prophet teaches through the workings of nature, and gives, as it were, a tongue to them .


 
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