So now your harvests will be too small to feed you. There will be no grapes for making new wine.
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.
- 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.
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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The very produce they attributed to Baal and celebrated will be withdrawn, leaving them hungry and without wine.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.
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Cross-references · 9
- 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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