Hosea 9 · Verse 2

Hosea 9:2

The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
Hosea 9:2, King James Version

Hosea 9:2 in other translations

BSBThe threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.
WEBThe threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her.
ASVThe threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
YLTFloor and wine-press do not delight them, And new wine doth fail in her,
DARBYThe floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
BBEThe grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not give them food; there will be no new wine for them.
WebsterThe floor and the wine-press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

What does Hosea 9:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
2. (Ho 2:9, 12). fail--disappoint her expectation.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hosea 9:1-6

The distress to come upon Israel. (Hos. 9:1-6) The approach of the day of trouble. (Hos. 9:7-10) Judgments on Israel. (Hos. 9:11-17) Verses 1-6 Israel gave rewards to their idols, in the offerings presented to them. It is common for those who are niggardly in religion, to be prodigal upon their lusts. Those are reckoned as idolaters, who love a reward in the corn-floor better than a reward in the favour of God and…

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Hosea 9:2 in the original Hebrew

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גֹּ֥רֶןGo.renthreshing floorH1637
וָיֶ֖קֶבva.Ye.kevand wine-pressH3342
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808
יִרְעֵ֑םyir.'Emit will feed themH7462
וְתִיר֖וֹשׁve.ti.Ro.oshand new wineH8492
יְכַ֥חֶשׁye.Kha.cheshit will failH3584
בָּֽהּ\׃Bah<in> it

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Cross references for Hosea 9:2

  • Hosea 2:9

    Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.

  • Micah 6:13-16

    Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins. Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword. Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine. For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

  • Hosea 2:12

    And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

  • Haggai 2:16

    Since 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.

  • Isaiah 24:7-12

    The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in. …

  • Joel 1:3-7

    Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten. Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. …

  • Haggai 1:9

    Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

  • Joel 1:9-13

    The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord’s ministers, mourn. The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men. …

  • Amos 4:5-11

    And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God. And 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 the Lord. And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. …

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floor.
2:9,12; Isa 24:7-12; Joe 1:3-7,9-13; Am 4:6-9,5-11; Mic 6:13-16
Hag 1:9; 2:16
winepress. or, winefat.

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Context

  • Hosea 9:1

    Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.

  • Hosea 9:2

    The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

  • Hosea 9:3

    They shall not dwell in the Lord’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

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Hosea 9:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
La era y el lagar no los mantendrán; les fallará el mosto.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
L’aire et la cuve ne les nourriront pas, et le moût les trompera.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Tenne und Kelter werden sie nicht ernähren, und der Most wird sie täuschen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Area et torcular non pascet eos, et vinum mentietur eis: