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There will be no grapes for making new wine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/hosea/9.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/hosea/9.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/hosea/9.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/hosea/9.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />The threshing floor and the winepress Shall not feed them, And the new wine shall fail in her.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/hosea/9.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them, And the new wine will fail them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/hosea/9.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them, And the new wine will fail them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/hosea/9.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them, And the new wine will fail them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/hosea/9.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them, And the new wine will deceive them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/hosea/9.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />The threshing floor and the wine press will no longer feed them, And the new wine will fail them [because they failed to honor the God who provides].<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/hosea/9.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Threshing floor and wine vat will not sustain them, and the new wine will fail them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/hosea/9.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Threshing floor and wine vat will not sustain them, and the new wine will fail them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/hosea/9.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/hosea/9.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />But you will run short of grain and wine, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/hosea/9.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/hosea/9.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />There won't be enough grain to feed people. There won't be enough wine to go around.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/hosea/9.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />But soon you will not have enough grain and olive oil, and there will be no wine. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/hosea/9.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Neither threshing floor nor winepress will sustain them, and the new wine will disappoint her.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/hosea/9.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/hosea/9.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, and new wine only deceives them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/hosea/9.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />The threshing floor and the winepress won't feed them, and the new wine will fail her.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/hosea/9.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />The floor and the wine-press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/hosea/9.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/hosea/9.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Floor and winepress do not feed them, "" And new wine fails in her,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/hosea/9.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Floor and wine-press do not delight them, And new wine doth fail in her,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/hosea/9.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/hosea/9.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the wine shall deceive them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/hosea/9.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />The threshing floor and the oil press will not feed them, and the wine will deceive them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/hosea/9.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Threshing floor and wine press will not nourish them, the new wine will fail them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/hosea/9.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/hosea/9.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />But the threshing floor and the winepress shall not satisfy them, and the oil shall fail them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/hosea/9.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And from the granary and from the winepress they will not be satisfied, and the oil will fail among them<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/hosea/9.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />The threshing-floor and the wine-press shall not feed them, And the new wine shall fail her.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/hosea/9.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />The threshing-floor and wine-press knew them not, and the wine disappointed them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/9-2.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xpPG1oLnpGk?start=1281" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/hosea/9.htm">Hosea Announces Israel's Punishment</a></span><br><span class="reftext">1</span>Do 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. <span class="reftext">2</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/1637.htm" title="1637: gō·ren (N-fs) -- Threshing floor. From an unused root meaning to smooth; a threshing- floor; by analogy, any open area.">The threshing floor</a> <a href="/hebrew/3342.htm" title="3342: wā·ye·qeḇ (Conj-w:: N-ms) -- Wine vat. From an unused root meaning to excavate; a trough; specifically, a wine-vat.">and winepress</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">will not</a> <a href="/hebrew/7462.htm" title="7462: yir·‘êm (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms:: 3mp) -- A primitive root; to tend a flock; i.e. Pasture it; intransitively, to graze; generally to rule; by extension, to associate with.">feed them,</a> <a href="/hebrew/8492.htm" title="8492: wə·ṯî·rō·wōš (Conj-w:: N-ms) -- Or tiyrosh; from yarash in the sense of expulsion; must or fresh grape-juice; by implication fermented wine.">and the new wine</a> <a href="/hebrew/3584.htm" title="3584: yə·ḵa·ḥeš (V-Piel-Imperf-3ms) -- To disappoint, deceive, fail, grow lean. A primitive root; to be untrue, in word or deed.">will fail them.</a> <a href="/hebrew/bāh (Prep:: 3fs) -- "></a> </span><span class="reftext">3</span>They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/28-38.htm">Deuteronomy 28:38-40</a></span><br />You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it. / You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. / You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joel/1-10.htm">Joel 1:10-12</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/4-6.htm">Amos 4:6-9</a></span><br />“I afflicted 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. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/5-10.htm">Isaiah 5:10</a></span><br />For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/haggai/1-6.htm">Haggai 1:6</a></span><br />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 a bag pierced through.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/26-26.htm">Leviticus 26:26</a></span><br />When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/6-14.htm">Micah 6:14-15</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/14-1.htm">Jeremiah 14:1-4</a></span><br />This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought: / “Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem. / The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/4-16.htm">Ezekiel 4:16-17</a></span><br />Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure. / So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/3-11.htm">Malachi 3:11</a></span><br />I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your land, and the vine in your field will not fail to produce fruit,” says the LORD of Hosts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/21-19.htm">Matthew 21:19</a></span><br />Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/13-6.htm">Luke 13:6-9</a></span><br />Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but did not find any. / So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’ / ‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone again this year, until I dig around it and fertilize it. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/11-13.htm">Mark 11:13-14</a></span><br />Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, He went to see if there was any fruit on it. But when He reached it, He found nothing on it except leaves, since it was not the season for figs. / Then He said to the tree, “May no one ever eat of your fruit again.” And His disciples heard this statement.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/15-2.htm">John 15:2</a></span><br />He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/8-20.htm">Romans 8:20-22</a></span><br />For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope / that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. / We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">The floor and the wine press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.</p><p class="hdg">floor.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/2-9.htm">Hosea 2:9,12</a></b></br> Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax <i>given</i> to cover her nakedness… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/24-7.htm">Isaiah 24:7-12</a></b></br> The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/joel/1-3.htm">Joel 1:3-7,9-13</a></b></br> Tell ye your children of it, and <i>let</i> your children <i>tell</i> their children, and their children another generation… </p><p class="hdg">winepress.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hosea/5-11.htm">Crushed</a> <a href="/hosea/8-13.htm">Delight</a> <a href="/ezekiel/47-12.htm">Fail</a> <a href="/hosea/4-16.htm">Feed</a> <a href="/hosea/9-1.htm">Floor</a> <a href="/hosea/9-1.htm">Floors</a> <a href="/hosea/7-14.htm">Food</a> <a href="/hosea/9-1.htm">Grain-Floor</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-2.htm">Grapes</a> <a href="/hosea/7-14.htm">New</a> <a href="/hosea/6-3.htm">Press</a> <a href="/hosea/9-1.htm">Threshing</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-33.htm">Threshing-Floor</a> <a href="/hosea/7-14.htm">Wine</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-15.htm">Winepress</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-15.htm">Wine-Press</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-33.htm">Winepresses</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-2.htm">Winevat</a> <a href="/hosea/5-6.htm">Won't</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/amos/2-13.htm">Crushed</a> <a href="/joel/1-16.htm">Delight</a> <a href="/amos/2-14.htm">Fail</a> <a href="/hosea/11-4.htm">Feed</a> <a href="/hosea/13-3.htm">Floor</a> <a href="/joel/2-24.htm">Floors</a> <a href="/hosea/9-3.htm">Food</a> <a href="/genesis/50-10.htm">Grain-Floor</a> <a href="/hosea/9-10.htm">Grapes</a> <a href="/joel/1-5.htm">New</a> <a href="/joel/3-13.htm">Press</a> <a href="/hosea/13-3.htm">Threshing</a> <a href="/hosea/13-3.htm">Threshing-Floor</a> <a href="/hosea/9-4.htm">Wine</a> <a href="/joel/3-13.htm">Winepress</a> <a href="/matthew/21-33.htm">Wine-Press</a> <a href="/zechariah/14-10.htm">Winepresses</a> <a href="/haggai/2-16.htm">Winevat</a> <a href="/hosea/9-3.htm">Won't</a><div class="vheading2">Hosea 9</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/9-1.htm">The distress and captivity of Israel for their sins.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The threshing floor was where grain was separated from chaff, and the winepress was used to extract juice from grapes. These were symbols of abundance and God's provision. However, in this context, they represent a withdrawal of divine blessing due to Israel's unfaithfulness. The imagery suggests a time of famine and scarcity, reminiscent of the curses outlined in <a href="/deuteronomy/28-38.htm">Deuteronomy 28:38-40</a>, where disobedience leads to agricultural failure. This phrase underscores the consequences of Israel's idolatry and spiritual adultery, as they have turned away from God, the true source of their sustenance.<p><b>and the new wine will fail them</b><br>New wine, a symbol of joy and celebration, often represents God's blessing and prosperity (<a href="/proverbs/3-10.htm">Proverbs 3:10</a>). In this passage, its failure signifies the loss of joy and divine favor. The new wine failing indicates that even the initial stages of harvest, which should bring hope and promise, will be disappointing. This can be seen as a fulfillment of the warnings given by the prophets, where reliance on foreign alliances and false gods leads to emptiness and despair (<a href="/hosea/2-8.htm">Hosea 2:8-9</a>). The failure of new wine also points to a deeper spiritual barrenness, as Israel's pursuit of other deities leaves them spiritually unfulfilled. This can be contrasted with the New Testament portrayal of Jesus as the true vine (<a href="/john/15.htm">John 15:1</a>), who provides spiritual nourishment and joy to those who abide in Him.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/h/hosea.htm">Hosea</a></b><br>A prophet in the Northern Kingdom of Israel, called by God to deliver messages of judgment and hope. His life and marriage serve as a metaphor for God's relationship with Israel.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The Northern Kingdom, often depicted in Hosea as unfaithful to God, engaging in idolatry and alliances with foreign nations.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/threshing_floor.htm">Threshing Floor</a></b><br>A place where grain is separated from chaff, symbolizing abundance and provision. In this context, it represents the source of sustenance that will fail Israel.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/w/winepress.htm">Winepress</a></b><br>A facility where grapes are crushed to produce wine, another symbol of prosperity and joy that will be lacking for Israel.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/j/judgment.htm">Judgment</a></b><br>The event of God's impending punishment on Israel for their unfaithfulness and idolatry, leading to a lack of provision and blessing.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/d/dependence_on_god_for_provision.htm">Dependence on God for Provision</a></b><br>The imagery of the threshing floor and winepress failing highlights the futility of relying on material abundance without God's blessing. Believers are reminded to trust in God as the ultimate provider.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/consequences_of_unfaithfulness.htm">Consequences of Unfaithfulness</a></b><br>Israel's unfaithfulness leads to tangible consequences, serving as a warning to remain faithful to God. This calls for self-examination of our own faithfulness and obedience.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_and_physical_realities.htm">Spiritual and Physical Realities</a></b><br>The physical lack of food and wine symbolizes a deeper spiritual barrenness. Christians are encouraged to seek spiritual nourishment through God's Word and presence.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/repentance_and_restoration.htm">Repentance and Restoration</a></b><br>While Hosea speaks of judgment, it is also a call to repentance. Believers are reminded of the hope of restoration when they turn back to God.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_hosea_9.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Hosea 9</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_do_scriptures_guide_emotions.htm">What do Bible verses say about abundance?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_of_israel's_idolatry_in_hosea_9_1.htm">In Hosea 9:1, what evidence supports or disputes Israel's alleged widespread idolatry as described here?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_'chidon'_in_chronicles,_'nachon'_in_samuel.htm">(1 Chronicles 13:9 vs. 2 Samuel 6:6) Why does Chronicles call the threshing floor 'Chidon,' while Samuel labels it 'Nachon,' and which is correct?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_solomon's_sacrifice_conflict_with_bans.htm">Does Solomon's sacrifice at high places (1 Kings 3:2-3) conflict with scriptural bans on worship outside the central sanctuary?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/hosea/9.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(2) <span class= "bld">Winepress</span>.--Read <span class= "ital">wine-vat</span> (with margin), into which the <span class= "ital">tirosh,</span> new wine (" grape-juice "), flowed from the winepress. (Comp. <a href="/isaiah/5-2.htm" title="And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the middle of it, and also made a wine press therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.">Isaiah 5:2</a>.) For "fail in her" read <span class= "ital">deceive her,</span> with LXX. and Vulgate.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hosea/9.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 2.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">The floor and the wine-press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.</span> Thus Israel was not to enjoy the blessings of the harvest; the corn and oil and new wine, or corn and wine, would not prove as abundant as they expected or plenty would be succeeded by scarcity; or, rather, the people would be prevented enjoying the abundant produce of their land in consequence of being carried away captive to Assyria, as seems implied in the following verse. The floor and press - whether wine-prom, or rather oil-press, as the mention of new wine follows - are put for their contents by a common figure of speech. The expression, "fail in her," is literally, "lie to her," and has many parallels; as, "The labor of the olive shall fail [margin, 'lie']," and Horace's "fundus mendax," equivalent to "a farm that belies his hopes." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/hosea/9-2.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">The threshing floor</span><br /><span class="heb">גֹּ֥רֶן</span> <span class="translit">(gō·ren)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1637.htm">Strong's 1637: </a> </span><span class="str2">A threshing-floor, open area</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and winepress</span><br /><span class="heb">וָיֶ֖קֶב</span> <span class="translit">(wā·ye·qeḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3342.htm">Strong's 3342: </a> </span><span class="str2">A trough, a wine-vat</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will not</span><br /><span class="heb">לֹ֣א</span> <span class="translit">(lō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">feed them,</span><br /><span class="heb">יִרְעֵ֑ם</span> <span class="translit">(yir·‘êm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7462.htm">Strong's 7462: </a> </span><span class="str2">To tend a, flock, pasture it, in, to graze, to rule, to associate with</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and the new wine</span><br /><span class="heb">וְתִיר֖וֹשׁ</span> <span class="translit">(wə·ṯî·rō·wōš)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8492.htm">Strong's 8492: </a> </span><span class="str2">Must, fresh grape-juice, fermented wine</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will fail them.</span><br /><span class="heb">יְכַ֥חֶשׁ</span> <span class="translit">(yə·ḵa·ḥeš)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3584.htm">Strong's 3584: </a> </span><span class="str2">To disappoint, deceive, fail, grow lean</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/9-2.htm">Hosea 9:2 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/hosea/9-2.htm">Hosea 9:2 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/hosea/9-2.htm">Hosea 9:2 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/hosea/9-2.htm">Hosea 9:2 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/hosea/9-2.htm">Hosea 9:2 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/9-2.htm">Hosea 9:2 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/9-2.htm">Hosea 9:2 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/9-2.htm">Hosea 9:2 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/9-2.htm">Hosea 9:2 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/hosea/9-2.htm">Hosea 9:2 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/hosea/9-2.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 9:2 The threshing floor and the winepress won't (Ho Hs Hos.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/hosea/9-1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hosea 9:1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hosea 9:1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/hosea/9-3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hosea 9:3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hosea 9:3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>