The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
Ver. 2. The floor and the winepress shall not feed them] Culpam poena premit comes, Punishment attendeth sin at the heels. They had abused their plenty, and ascribed it to their idols; therefore shall they be cut short either in their store, as Habakkuk 3:6; Habakkuk 3:10; Habakkuk 2:16, or in their strength, as Hosea 4:10; Hosea 8:7. see Hosea 2:8,9 , with the notes One way or other their hopes shall be frustrated, the creature shall lie to them, and not answer their expectation.
The new wine shall fail in her] Mustum mentietur ei: see the like phrase, Hab 3:17 Isa 58:11 Job 41:6 : they shall come to the grain floors and winepresses, as men come to a lottery with heads full of hopes; but depart disappointed, with their hearts full of blanks. As they have lied to God (idolatry is nothing else but a large lie), and dealt deceitfully with him in the covenant, so shall all things lie to them, and not answer their hopes. Look how a certain prince paid a false traitor, who for a sum of money had betrayed his country to him, in false coin; so shall it fare with such as falsify with God; he will blast their hopes, and curse their blessings, cut them short in the height of their expectancies, strike them in the things that their hearts are most set upon, the new wine shall lie to them, and so set them a howling, Joel 1:5 .