KJV King James Version
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Hosea 9:2
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.
WEB World English Bible
The threshing floor and the winepress won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her.
ASV American Standard Version
The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Floor and wine-press do not delight them, And new wine doth fail in her,
Surrounding context — Hosea 9
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 cornfloor.
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 them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?
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Hosea 2:9Therefore 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 [given] to cover her nakedness.Joel 1:9-13The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD’S ministers, mourn.Amos 4:5-11And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim [and] publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.Hosea 2:12And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These [are] my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.Micah 6:13-16Therefore also will I make [thee] sick in smiting thee, in making [thee] desolate because of thy sins.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 [is] waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.Haggai 2:16Since those [days] were, when [one] came to an heap of twenty [measures], there were [but] ten: when [one] came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty [vessels] out of the press, there were [but] twenty.Isaiah 24:7-12The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.Joel 1:3-7Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation.
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