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Hosea 9:2
The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet Hosea addresses Israel immediately after warning against their idolatrous rejoicing on the threshing floors (Hosea 9:1) and immediately before declaring their exile to Egypt and Assyria (Hosea 9:3).
The words — The Hebrew גֹּ֥רֶן (Go.ren) denotes a threshing floor, while יְכַ֥חֶשׁ (ye.Kha.chesh) literally means to fail or prove false, describing how the new wine will not sustain them.
The thread — This declaration of agricultural failure echoes God's promise to reclaim grain and new wine in Hosea 2:9, parallels the withering vines and drying new wine in Isaiah 24:7, and aligns with the judgment on Israel's reliance on lovers' wages in Hosea 2:12.
Why it lands — The text states that Israel's idolatrous sources of provision will become empty, demanding recognition that their covenant blessings are withdrawn due to their unfaithfulness.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
Cross-references
- Hosea 2:9 Therefore I will take back My grain in its time and My new wine in its season; I will take away My wool and linen, which were given to cover her nakedness.
- Isaiah 24:7 The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
- Hosea 2:12 I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.
- Joel 1:3 Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
- Joel 1:9 Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.
- Amos 4:5 Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.
- Micah 6:13 Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.
- Haggai 1:9 You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
- Haggai 2:16 from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.