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The threshing floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
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God's Corrective Discipline
Commentators explain that God's punishment was designed to fit the crime. Because Israel pursued idolatry for the sake of material gain (grain and wine), God withdrew those very blessings. John Calvin likens this to a father withholding bread from a gluttonous child—not merely to punish, but to correct their misplaced desires and show them that He alone is the true provider.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The floor and winepress shall not feed them - God turns away completely from the adulterous people and tells others how justly they…
19th Century
Anglican
Winepress.—Understand this as wine-vat (as noted in the margin), into which the tîrôsh, new wine (or “grape-juic…
16th Century
Protestant
God now pronounces such a punishment as the Israelites deserved. They had been drawn away, as we have said, from the pure worship of God by allurem…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them Though their expectations from their worship of idols were large, th…
Israel gave rewards to their idols, in the offerings presented to them. It is common for those who are stingy in religion, to be lavish in indulgin…
