The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her.
Parallel translations
- KJV The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
- BSB The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.
- NKJV The threshing floor and the winepress Shall not feed them, And the new wine shall fail in her.
- NASB Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them, And the new wine will fail them.
- NLT So now your harvests will be too small to feed you. There will be no grapes for making new wine.
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- Hos 2:9Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
- Joel 1:3–7Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.
- Hos 2:12I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,’ and the animals of the field shall eat them.
- Hag 1:9“You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.
- Mic 6:13–16Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.
- Isa 24:7–12The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.
- Joel 1:9–13The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house. The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.
- Hag 2:16Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.
- Amos 4:5–11offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.
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