When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
Hosea 9:2 - Revised Standard Version CI Threshing floor and winevat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The threshing floor and the winevat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them. American Standard Version (1901) The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her. Common English Bible Threshing floor and wine vat won’t feed them; the new wine will fail them. Catholic Public Domain Version The threshing floor and the oil press will not feed them, and the wine will deceive them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the wine shall deceive them. |
When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
And I will put an end to all her mirth, her feasts, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts.
And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, ‘These are my hire, which my lovers have given me.’ I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season; and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness.
Therefore because you trample upon the poor and take from him exactions of wheat, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
You have looked for much, and lo, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the Lord of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while you busy yourselves each with his own house.
how did you fare? When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the winevat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.