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Geneva Study Bible Commentary

Hosea 9:2

(c) The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

(c) These outward things that you seek will be taken from you.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE JOYLESS DISCIPLINE OF EXILE. The delirious joy of the popular nature-religion shall soon be exchanged for the sorrows of exile. In her own land Israel had treacherously ascribed to the Baalim the...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FLOOR. threshing-floor. WINEPRESS. wine fat. Hebrew. _yekeb,_ the wine receptacle; not _gath_, the winepress. See note on Isaiah 5:2. NEW WINE. Hebrew. _tirosh._ App-27. Not same as Hosea 9:4. HER.....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A vivid picture of the bitterness of the calamity in prospect. It does but equal the Gibeah-like wickedness of Israel....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _ISRAEL FACED CERTAIN DESTRUCTION -- HOSEA 9:1-6:_ Israel was headed for a fall. They had been unfaithful to God by behaving like spiritual prostitutes. They enjoyed the blessings they had received fr...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    LOVE REBUKING Hosea 9:1, Hosea 13:16 REPROVINGISRAEL FORSOOK GOD TEXT: Hosea 9:1-9 1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for thou hast played the harlot, departing from thy God; thou...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. THE FLOOR AND THE WINEPRESS SHALL NOT FEED THEM ( ; ), AND THE NEW WINE SHALL FAIL - disappoint her expectation...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    9:2 fail (h-15) Lit. 'deceive.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    EXILE IS AT HAND This prophecy appears to have been written in a time of rejoicing over a good harvest and vintage. Israel need not rejoice, says the prophet, with the wild joy of the heathen. Their...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 9 HOSEA TELLS ISRAEL THAT GOD WILL PUNISH HER V1 People of Israel, do not be happy. Do not shout for joy like the other nations...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WINEPRESS. — Read _wine-vat_ (with margin), into which the _tîrôsh,_ new wine (“ grape-juice “), flowed from the winepress. (Comp. Isaiah 5:2.) For “fail in her” read _deceive her,_ with LXX. and Vulg...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    גֹּ֥רֶן וָ יֶ֖קֶב לֹ֣א יִרְעֵ֑ם וְ תִירֹ֖ושׁ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    3. THE EFFECTS OF EXILE Hosea 9:1 Hosea now turns to describe the effects of exile upon the social and religious habits of the people. It must break up at once the joy and the sacredness of their liv...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The judgment was then described in detail. Its first note was of the death of joy. Israel could not find her joy like other peoples. She had gone whoring from God, loving hire on every threshing floor...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I beg the Reader to remark with me, how much the Prophet dwells in all his Sermons, upon that feature of character which is so lovely and gracious; I mean the Lord Jesus being the Husband of his peopl...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The rest of the prophecy consists of the indignant appeals of the Holy Spirit to conscience because of the increasing evils of Israel not so much the judgment of God on a grand scale, and His grace at...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    God now denounces such a punishment as the Israelites deserved. They had been drawn away, as we have said, from the pure worship of God by allurements; they hoped for more profit from superstitions. H...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. Ver. 2. _The floor and the winepress shall not feed them_] _Culpam poena premit comes,_ Punishment attendeth sin a...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Rejoice not, O Israel_ It should seem that this prophecy was delivered at a time when the situation of public affairs was promising; perhaps after some signal success, which had given occasion to pub...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    WARNING AGAINST FALSE SECURITY...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    WINEPRESS: Or, winefat...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 Israel gave rewards to their idols, in the offerings presented to them. It is common for those who are niggardly in religion, to be prodigal upon their lusts. Those are reckoned as idolaters, who...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘The threshing-floor and the oil-press will not feed them, And the new wine will fail her.' They were to recognise that in the not too distant future they would discover that their threshing floors a...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL MUST NOT REJOICE AT THEIR HARVEST FEAST BECAUSE EVERYTHING WILL SHORTLY BE TAKEN FROM THEM WHEN THEY ARE EXILED TO EGYPT/ASSYRIA BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY HAVE BECOME AND BECAUSE OF HOW THEY HAVE TR...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Israel's coming distress because of sin. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Joy is a forbidden fruit to those who have broken covenant with God, until they return...

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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