Hosea 9

Hosea · Chapter 9

Hosea 9:2

1Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.2The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.3They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.4They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.5What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?6For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.7The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.8The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.11As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!13Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.14Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.15All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.16Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.17My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

King James Version (1769)

Other translations

VerseKJVBSBASV
2The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.

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Original Hebrew words

EnglishHebrewSay itStrong'sMeaning
threshing floorגֹּ֥רֶןGO-renH1637
threshing floor

גֹּ֫רֶן (go.ren) 1) threshing-floor 2) (TWOT) barn, barn floor, corn floor, void place

and wine-pressוָיֶ֖קֶבva-YE-kevH3342
wine

יֶ֫קֶב (ye.qev) wine vat, wine-press

notלֹ֣אlo'H3808
not

לֹא (lo) 1) not, no 1a) not (with verb-absolute prohibition) 1b) not (with modifier-negation) 1c) nothing (subst) 1d) without (with particle) 1e) before (of time) Aramaic equivalent: la (לָא "not" H3809)

it will feed themיִרְעֵ֑םyir-'EMH7462B
to pasture

רָעָה (ra.ah) 1) to pasture, tend, graze, feed 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to tend, pasture 1a1a) to shepherd 1a1b) of ruler, teacher (fig) 1a1c) of people as flock (fig) 1a1d) shepherd, herdsman (subst) 1a2) to feed, graze 1a2a) of cows, sheep etc (literal) 1a2b) of idolater, Israel as flock (fig) 1b) (Hiphil) shepherd, shepherdess Also means: ro.i (רֹעִי "to shepherd" H7473)

and new wineוְתִיר֖וֹשׁve-ti-RO-oshH8492
new wine

תִּירוֹשׁ (ti.rosh) wine, fresh or new wine, must, freshly pressed wine

it will failיְכַ֥חֶשׁye-KHA-cheshH3584
to deceive

כָּחַשׁ (ka.chash) 1) to deceive, lie, fail, grow lean, be disappointing, be untrue, be insufficient, be found liars, belie, deny, dissemble, deal falsely 1a) (Qal) to become lean 1b) (Niphal) to cringe, feign obedience 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to deceive, deny falsely 1c2) to act deceptively 1c3) to cringe 1c4) to disappoint, fail 1d) (Hithpael) to cringe, feign obedience

Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.