2The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
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Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.
Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins. …
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. …
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn. …
And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Here, I. The people of Israel are charged with spiritual adultery: O Israel! thou hast gone a whoring from thy God , Hos. 9:1. Their covenant with God was a marriage-covenant, by which they were joined to him as their God, renouncing all others. But when they set up idols and worshipped them, when they fled to creatures for succour and put a confidence in them, they went a whoring from God as thei…
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