Hosea 9:2

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“The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.”

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BSBPD

“The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Floor and wine-press do not delight them, And new wine doth fail in her,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Hosea 9:2 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Isaiah 24:7The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
  2. Hosea 2:9Therefore 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.
  3. Hosea 2:11I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths— all her appointed feasts.
  4. Hosea 2:12I 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. Joel 1:3Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
  6. Joel 1:9Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.
  7. Amos 4:5Offer 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.
  8. Amos 5:11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
  9. Micah 6:13Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.
  10. Haggai 1:9You 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.
  11. Haggai 2:16from 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.

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