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Hosea 9:2

Hosea 9:2
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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,…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Hosea 9:1-6

Here, I. The people of Israel are charged with spiritual adultery: O Israel! thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, Hos 9:1. Their covenant with God was a marriage-covenant, by which they were joined…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

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 Hab 3:17). There…