Hosea 9:2
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
The floor and the wine press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
American King James Version (AKJV)
The floor and the wine press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
American Standard Version (ASV)
The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not give them food; there will be no new wine for them.
Webster's Revision
The floor and the wine-press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
World English Bible
The threshing floor and the winepress won't feed them, and the new wine will fail her.
English Revised Version (ERV)
The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
Barnes's Hosea 9:2 Bible Commentary
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 .
Wesley's Hosea 9:2 Bible Commentary
9:2 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.Shall fail - Samaria and all Israel expect a full vintage, but they expect it from their idols, and therefore shall be disappointed.