Hosea 9:2
in Hosea 9The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.
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ASV
The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
KJV
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
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This verse in Hosea 9
Commentary
6 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
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.
This site's exposition
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy
on Hosea 9:1-2
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people opens the chapter by forbidding the harvest festival's usual gladness, because the reward Israel loved on every cornfloor was credited to Baal in the nation's own telling rather than to the Lord. The threshing floor and the winepress, the very places the false thanksgiving was offered, are named as the places that will fail to feed the nation, judgment landing exactly where the sin was committed. The bench reads the whole unit as an answer to the fertility cult behind Israel's worship, the true giver of grain and wine withdrawing what the false gods had been credited with supplying.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
"Do not rejoice, Israel: do not exult as the peoples: for you have committed fornication with your God: you have loved the reward above all the wheat fields. The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the wine shall deceive them." LXX: "Do not rejoice, Israel, and do not be glad like the other peoples: for you have committed fornication against your God; you have loved the wages of fornication above every wheat floor. The threshing floor and winepress shall not feed them, and the wine will deceive them."
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
The floor - The corn which is gathered into the floor. The wine- press - The wine that is prest out in it. Shall not feed - Shall not nourish and strengthen the idolaters.
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them,....
The new wine with which they used to make merry shall fail in her. Note, When we make the world, and the things of it, our idol and portion, above what they were designed for, it is just with God to deny us even support and nourishment from them, according to that which they were designed for, to show us our folly and correct us for it.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
Rejoice not, O Israel like the other peoples, for they did not receive a Torah, and they did not come to My lot, but you strayed from Me and lost many benefits.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| גֹּ֥רֶן | goren | threshing floor | H1637 → | 36 times |
| וָיֶ֖קֶב | vayekev | and wine-press | H3342 → | |
| לֹ֣א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| יִרְעֵ֑ם | yirem | it will feed them | H7462 → | 177 times |
| וְתִיר֖וֹשׁ | vetiroosh | and new wine | H8492 → | 38 times |
| יְכַ֥חֶשׁ | yekhachesh | it will fail | H3584 → | |
| בָּֽהּ׃ | bah | <in> it |
גֹּ֥רֶןthreshing floor
gorenH1637 →36 times
וָיֶ֖קֶבand wine-press
vayekevH3342 →
לֹ֣אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
יִרְעֵ֑םit will feed them
yiremH7462 →177 times
וְתִיר֖וֹשׁand new wine
vetirooshH8492 →38 times
יְכַ֥חֶשׁit will fail
yekhacheshH3584 →
בָּֽהּ׃<in> it
bah
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Haggai 1:9You 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…
it leads to
- Haggai 1:4
“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
- Malachi 2:2
If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse…
- Revelation 3:19
Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
- Haggai 2:16–17
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.
- Haggai 1:4
Through
Hosea 2:12I 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…
it leads to
- Isaiah 5:5
Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will…
- Isaiah 7:23
And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
- Isaiah 5:5
Through
Hosea 2:9Therefore 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.
it leads to
- Hosea 2:3
Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her…
- Haggai 1:6–11
You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into…
- Hosea 2:3
About Hosea
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Twelve Minor Prophets; Edward Bouverie Pusey, The Minor Prophets: A Commentary; Jerome, Commentary on Hosea 9:1-2; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.