The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them,
and the new wine will fail her.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Hosea 9:2 in context
Hosea 9:1–5
1
Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations;
for you were unfaithful to your God.
You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
2
Selected verse
The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them,
and the new wine will fail her.
3
They won’t dwell in the LORD’s land;
but Ephraim will return to Egypt,
and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
4
They won’t pour out wine offerings to the LORD,
neither will they be pleasing to him.
Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;
all who eat of it will be polluted;
for their bread will be for their appetite.
It will not come into the LORD’s house.
5
What will you do in the day of solemn assembly,
and in the day of the feast of the LORD?
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