The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
Parallel translations
- WEB The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail 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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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The very produce they attributed to Baal and celebrated will be withdrawn, leaving them hungry and without wine.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 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 1:3–7Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
- Hos 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.
- Hag 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.
- Mic 6:13–16Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
- Isa 24:7–12The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
- 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.
- Hag 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.
- 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.
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