The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.
Parallel translations
- WEB The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her.
- KJV The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
- 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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Quick answer
The threshing floor and winepress will fail to sustain them, and the new wine will run dry.
Overview
The very produce they attributed to Baal and celebrated will be withdrawn, leaving them hungry and without wine. God removes His blessings to expose the emptiness of idolatry. The failure of harvest demonstrates that all good gifts come from the LORD, and that turning from Him forfeits the abundance He alone supplies.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Hos 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.
- Joel 1:3–7Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
- Hos 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.
- Hag 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.
- Mic 6:13–16Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.
- Isa 24:7–12The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
- Joel 1:9–13Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.
- Hag 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.
- Amos 4:5–11Offer 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.
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