2 Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people; the new wine will fail them.
2 The floor and the winepress
2 Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them.
2 All that party food won't fill you up. You'll end up hungrier than ever.
2 The threshing floor and the winepress Shall not feed them, And the new wine shall fail in her.
2 So now your harvests will be too small to feed you. There will be no grapes for making new wine.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Hosea 9:2
Commentary on Hosea 9:1-6
(Read Hosea 9:1-6)
Israel gave rewards to their idols, in the offerings presented to them. It is common for those who are niggardly in religion, to be prodigal upon their lusts. Those are reckoned as idolaters, who love a reward in the corn-floor better than a reward in the favour of God and in eternal life. They are full of the joy of harvest, and have no disposition to mourn for sin. When we make the world, and the things of it, our idol and our portion, it is just with God to show us our folly, and correct us. None may expect to dwell in the Lord's land, who will not be subject to the Lord's laws, or be influenced by his love. When we enjoy the means of grace, we ought to consider what we shall do, if they should be taken from us. While the pleasures of communion with God are out of the reach of change, the pleasant places purchased with silver, or in which men deposit silver, are liable to be laid in ruins. No famine is so dreadful as that of the soul.