Albert Barnes Commentary Hosea 9:2

"The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her." — Hosea 9:2 (ASV)

The floor and winepress shall not feed them - God turns away completely from the adulterous people and tells others how justly they will first be dealt with for this. “Because she loved My reward, and despised Myself, the reward itself shall be taken away from her.”

When the blessings of God have been abused for sin, He, in mercy and judgment, takes them away. He cut them off to show that He alone, who now withheld them, had previously given them. When they thought themselves most secure, when the grain was stored on the floor and the grapes were in the press, then God would deprive them of these blessings.

And the new wine shall fail in her, or, it shall fail her - Literally, it means “shall lie to her.” Perhaps he would say that as Israel had lied to his God and had spoken lies against Him (Hosea 7:13), so, in retribution, the fruits of the earth would disappoint her.

Holding out hopes that never materialized, they would, so to speak, lie to her. In the bitterness of her disappointment, this would represent to her her own failure to her God. The prophet teaches through the workings of nature and gives, as it were, a tongue to them.