The promise that threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them and the new wine shall fail them suggests that the fertility promised through Baal worship will be withheld, that the agricultural abundance Israel sought through false gods will prove elusive. The multiplication of altars has not secured prosperity but brought judgment that will strip away the livelihood Israel hoped to gain through idolatry. This verse demonstrates the emptiness of idolatry's promises and the reality of judgment.

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