Hosea 9:2
The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
In Context
Cross References
Hosea 2:9Therefore will I take back my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
Hosea 2:12And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my hire that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
Joel 1:9The meal offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD’S ministers, mourn.
Amos 5:11Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.
Haggai 1:9Ye 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 lieth waste, while ye run every man to his own house.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 9:2-7
Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 740.) 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 corn-floor. 2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. 3 They shall not dwell in the Lord 's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. 4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord , neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto… Read the whole commentary →