Hosea 9:2
Hosea 9:2 in Multiple Translations
The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not give them food; there will be no new wine for them.
Your threshing floors and winepresses will not feed you; the land will fail to produce your new wine.
The floore, and the wine presse shall not feede them, and the newe wine shall faile in her.
Floor and wine-press do not delight them, And new wine doth fail in her,
The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her.
The floor and the wine-press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the wine shall deceive them.
But soon there will not be enough grain [MTY, PRS] and wine [MTY, PRS] for you.
Berean Amplified Bible — Hosea 9:2
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Hosea 9:2 Interlinear (Deep Study)
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גֹּ֥רֶן
וָ/יֶ֖קֶב
לֹ֣א
יִרְעֵ֑/ם
וְ/תִיר֖וֹשׁ
יְכַ֥חֶשׁ
בָּֽ/הּ
גֹּ֥רֶן
gôren
H1637
threshing floor
N-cs
וָ/יֶ֖קֶב
yeqeb
H3342
wine
Conj | N-ms
לֹ֣א
lôʼ
H3808
not
Part
יִרְעֵ֑/ם
râʻâh
H7462
House of Shepherds
V-Qal-Imperf-3ms | Suff
וְ/תִיר֖וֹשׁ
tîyrôwsh
H8492
new wine
Conj | N-ms
יְכַ֥חֶשׁ
kâchash
H3584
to deceive
V-Piel-Imperf-3ms
בָּֽ/הּ
Prep | Suff
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Hebrew Word Reference — Hosea 9:2
גֹּ֥רֶן
gôren
H1637
"threshing floor"
N-cs
A threshing floor is an open area where grain is separated from chaff, as seen in the book of Ruth. This word can also refer to a barn or empty space. The KJV Bible translates it as floor or place.
Definition: 1) threshing-floor 2) (TWOT) barn, barn floor, corn floor, void place
Usage: Occurs in 37 OT verses. KJV: (barn, corn, threshing-) floor, (threshing-, void) place. See also: Genesis 50:10; 1 Kings 22:10; Isaiah 21:10.
וָ/יֶ֖קֶב
yeqeb
H3342
"wine"
Conj | N-ms
A wine vat is a container for holding wine, specifically a trough or press where grapes are crushed to make wine. It is also called a wine-press.
Definition: wine vat, wine-press
Usage: Occurs in 16 OT verses. KJV: fats, presses, press-fat, wine(-press). See also: Numbers 18:27; Isaiah 5:2; Proverbs 3:10.
לֹ֣א
lôʼ
H3808
"not"
Part
The Hebrew word for not or no is used to indicate absence or negation, as when God says no to the Israelites' requests, or when they disobey His commands.
Definition: 1) not, no 1a) not (with verb-absolute prohibition) 1b) not (with modifier-negation) 1c) nothing (subst) 1d) without (with particle) 1e) before (of time) Aramaic equivalent: la (לָא "not" H3809)
Usage: Occurs in 3967 OT verses. KJV: [idiom] before, [phrase] or else, ere, [phrase] except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay, neither, never, no((-ne), -r, (-thing)), ([idiom] as though...,(can-), for) not (out of), of nought, otherwise, out of, [phrase] surely, [phrase] as truly as, [phrase] of a truth, [phrase] verily, for want, [phrase] whether, without. See also: Genesis 2:5; Genesis 31:15; Exodus 4:9.
יִרְעֵ֑/ם
râʻâh
H7462
"House of Shepherds"
V-Qal-Imperf-3ms | Suff
This verb means to care for or tend to someone or something, like a shepherd with his flock. It can also mean to rule over or associate with someone as a friend, and is sometimes used to describe a close relationship.
Definition: Ra'ah = "pasturing" perh. "binding-house of the shepherds"
Usage: Occurs in 139 OT verses. KJV: [idiom] break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep) (-er), pastor, [phrase] shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste. See also: Genesis 4:2; Isaiah 40:11; Psalms 23:1.
וְ/תִיר֖וֹשׁ
tîyrôwsh
H8492
"new wine"
Conj | N-ms
New wine, freshly squeezed from grapes, is the meaning of this Hebrew word. It can also refer to fermented wine, but that is less common. The KJV translates it as new or sweet wine.
Definition: wine, fresh or new wine, must, freshly pressed wine
Usage: Occurs in 38 OT verses. KJV: (new, sweet) wine. See also: Genesis 27:28; Psalms 4:8; Proverbs 3:10.
יְכַ֥חֶשׁ
kâchash
H3584
"to deceive"
V-Piel-Imperf-3ms
To deceive or lie, as seen in Psalm 116:11 where the psalmist says all people are liars. It means to be untrue in word or deed, disappointing or failing others. This concept is also found in Proverbs 10:18.
Definition: 1) to deceive, lie, fail, grow lean, be disappointing, be untrue, be insufficient, be found liars, belie, deny, dissemble, deal falsely 1a) (Qal) to become lean 1b) (Niphal) to cringe, feign obedience 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to deceive, deny falsely 1c2) to act deceptively 1c3) to cringe 1c4) to disappoint, fail 1d) (Hithpael) to cringe, feign obedience
Usage: Occurs in 22 OT verses. KJV: deceive, deny, dissemble, fail, deal falsely, be found liars, (be-) lie, lying, submit selves. See also: Genesis 18:15; Psalms 18:45; Psalms 66:3.
בָּֽ/הּ
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Prep | Suff
Study Notes — Hosea 9:2
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- Hosea 9:2 Summary
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Reflection Questions
- Gill's Exposition on Hosea 9:2
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Hosea 9:2
- Matthew Poole's Commentary on Hosea 9:2
- Trapp's Commentary on Hosea 9:2
- Ellicott's Commentary on Hosea 9:2
- Cambridge Bible on Hosea 9:2
- Barnes' Notes on Hosea 9:2
- Whedon's Commentary on Hosea 9:2
- Sermons on Hosea 9:2
Context — Israel’s Punishment
1Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
2The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.
3They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria. 4They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will not enter the house of the LORD.Cross References
| Reference | Text (BSB) | |
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| 1 | 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. |
| 2 | Micah 6:13–16 | Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins. You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword. You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine. You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations. ” |
| 3 | Joel 1:3–7 | Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation. What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten. Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth. For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness. It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white. |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | Isaiah 24:7–12 | The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan. The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent. They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it. The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry. In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land. The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble. |
| 7 | Joel 1:9–13 | 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. The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails. Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple— all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up. Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God. |
| 8 | 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. |
| 9 | Amos 4:5–11 | 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. “I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered. People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. “I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. “I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. “Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. |
Hosea 9:2 Summary
[Hosea 9:2 tells us that when we turn away from God, even the things that normally bring us joy and provision will not be enough to satisfy us, as seen in the failure of the threshing floor and winepress to feed the Israelites. This is because true satisfaction and fulfillment can only come from a relationship with God (Psalm 16:11). The Israelites' experience teaches us that earthly sources of comfort are unreliable and that we must trust in God's promises and presence for our well-being (Jeremiah 2:13). By focusing on God and His Word, we can find true joy and provision, even in difficult times (Isaiah 58:11).]
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the significance of the threshing floor and winepress in Hosea 9:2?
The threshing floor and winepress represent the sources of food and drink for the Israelites, but in this context, they will not provide for them, symbolizing God's judgment and withdrawal of blessing, as seen in Deuteronomy 28:38-40 and Isaiah 5:10.
Why will the new wine fail them?
The new wine failing them indicates that even the things that bring them joy and celebration will be taken away, much like what is described in Isaiah 24:7 and Revelation 6:6, highlighting the severity of God's judgment on their idolatry and disobedience.
How does this verse relate to the Israelites' spiritual condition?
This verse shows that despite their external rituals and sacrifices, the Israelites' hearts are far from God, and their attempts to find sustenance and joy in earthly things will ultimately fail them, as prophesied in Amos 5:11 and Micah 6:15.
What is the main message of Hosea 9:2?
The main message is that God's people cannot find true satisfaction and provision in earthly things when they have turned away from Him, a theme also seen in Psalm 106:13-15 and Jeremiah 2:13.
Reflection Questions
- In what ways do I seek satisfaction and provision in earthly things rather than in God, and how can I redirect my focus to Him?
- How can I ensure that my heart remains true to God and that I do not fall into the trap of idolatry, as the Israelites did?
- What are some areas in my life where I am trying to find joy and fulfillment in things that will ultimately fail me, and how can I replace these with a pursuit of God's presence and promises?
- In what ways can I practically apply the lesson of Hosea 9:2 to my daily life, trusting in God's provision and faithfulness rather than in earthly sources of comfort and security?
Gill's Exposition on Hosea 9:2
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them,.... Though their expectations from their worship of idols were large, they should find themselves mistaken; for there would not be a sufficiency of
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Hosea 9:2
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. The floor and the winepress shall not feed them (Hosea 2:9; Hosea 2:12), and the new wine shall fail - disappoint her expectation.
Matthew Poole's Commentary on Hosea 9:2
The floor; the corn which is gathered into the floor and that is threshed there, that plenty which these sottish idolaters have, and think they have it from their idols, the bread they eat. For here the floor is put for the corn, and the bread made of it. The wine-press, by the same figure, put for the wine that is pressed out in it; though there is great plenty, and the vats overflow as well as the press full. Shall not feed them; all this plenty shall not nourish and strengthen them. Since they think their idols give them their corn and wine, let them give also, what I will not give, a blessing on these that they may support and refresh them; they shall be lean and half-starved in their plenty unless their idols can do this for them, i.e. bless their food. Them, who seek to idols for corn and wine, and praise their idols as givers of it. These I will blast, their provision shall be as theirs, . The new wine shall fail in her; or lie unto her, or fail her expectation. Samaria and all Israel expect a fair and full vintage, but they expect it from their idols, which are a doctrine of lies, and in this, as in all other, will lie.
Trapp's Commentary on Hosea 9:2
Hosea 9:2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.Ver. 2. The floor and the winepress shall not feed them] Culpam poena premit comes, Punishment attendeth sin at the heels. They had abused their plenty, and ascribed it to their idols; therefore shall they be cut short either in their store, as Habakkuk 3:6; Habakkuk 3:10; Habakkuk 2:16, or in their strength, as Hosea 4:10; Hosea 8:7. One way or other their hopes shall be frustrated, the creature shall lie to them, and not answer their expectation. The new wine shall fail in her] Mustum mentietur ei: see the like phrase, Habakkuk 3:17 Isaiah 58:11 Job 41:6 : they shall come to the grain floors and winepresses, as men come to a lottery with heads full of hopes; but depart disappointed, with their hearts full of blanks. As they have lied to God (idolatry is nothing else but a large lie), and dealt deceitfully with him in the covenant, so shall all things lie to them, and not answer their hopes. Look how a certain prince paid a false traitor, who for a sum of money had betrayed his country to him, in false coin; so shall it fare with such as falsify with God; he will blast their hopes, and curse their blessings, cut them short in the height of their expectancies, strike them in the things that their hearts are most set upon, the new wine shall lie to them, and so set them a howling, Joe 1:5.
Ellicott's Commentary on Hosea 9:2
(2) Winepress.—Read wine-vat (with margin), into which the tîrôsh, new wine (“ grape-juice “), flowed from the winepress. (Comp. Isaiah 5:2.) For “fail in her” read deceive her, with LXX. and Vulgate.
Cambridge Bible on Hosea 9:2
2. the winepress] Rather, the vat (within the press) into which the grape-juice or the oil flowed; comp. Joe 2:24. shall fail in her] Rather, shall fall her (lit. ‘shall lie unto her’, as Habakkuk 3:17). There is a good various reading (supported by the versions and by the Babylonian codex) ‘in them’, but the same interchange of pronouns occurs in Hosea 4:19. Idolatrous Israel is personified as a harlot. Wine-drinking was, in fact, so closely connected with the customs of idolatry (comp. Judges 9:27; Amos 2:8), that the Nazirites bound themselves by a vow of ‘total abstinence’ (Numbers 6:3).
Barnes' Notes on Hosea 9:2
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.
Whedon's Commentary on Hosea 9:2
2. Faithlessness to Jehovah will be punished by a withdrawal of the divine gifts (Hosea 2:9).
Sermons on Hosea 9:2
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Will the Next Generation Know? by John Piper | In this sermon, the speaker discusses the consequences of ignorance and the importance of knowing and teaching the word of God. The sermon focuses on the story of the people of Isr |
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Letters: Rev. John Purves, Jedburgh (1) by Andrew Bonar | Andrew Bonar shares his profound experiences during a visit to Jerusalem, expressing the overwhelming joy of being in the Holy Land where biblical events unfolded. He reflects on t |
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The Remnant and Martyrdom by Michael Howard | This sermon emphasizes the importance of truly living by faith and trusting God for provision, rather than manipulating circumstances for personal gain. It calls for a return to bu |
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When Life Is Overwhelming - Chuck Smith by From the Pulpit & Classic Sermons | In this sermon, the preacher focuses on the fourth chapter of Zechariah verse 6, where God speaks to the rebel and declares that His spirit, not human might or power, will accompli |
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Grain Offering - Leviticus 2 by Jacob Prasch | In this sermon, the speaker discusses his visit to the Airport Vineyard Church in Toronto and expresses his shock at the extreme and unscriptural practices he witnessed there. He e |