Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 9:2

2 The floor and the wine-press shall not feed them , and the new wine shall fail in her .

The Corn which is gathered into the floor and that is threshed there, that plenty which these sottish Idolaters have, and think they have it from their Idols, the bread they eat. For here is the floor put for the Corn, and the bread made of it.

By the same figure, put for the Wine that is prest out in it, though there is great plenty, and the fats overflow as well as the press full.

All this plenty shall not nourish and strengthen them. Since they think their Idols give them their Corn and Wine, let them give also, what I will not give, a blessing on these that they may support, and refresh them; they shall be lean and half-starved in their plenty unless their Idols can do this for them, i. e. bless their food.

Who seek to Idols for Corn and Wine, and praise their Idols as givers of it. These I will b[illegible: 1 letter]ast, their provision shall be as theirs, Hag. 1.6.

Or lie unto her, or fail her expectation. Samaria and all Israel expect a fair and full vintage, but they expect it from their Idols which are a Doctrine of Lies, and in this as in all other will Lie.

Marginal references: Or, wine-fat.