Hosea 9:12
For even should they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, [that] not a man [remain]: for woe also to them when I shall have departed from them!
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
11As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away as a bird, no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
Cross References
Numbers 14:34After the number of the days in which ye have searched out the land, forty days, each day for a year shall ye bear your iniquities forty years, and ye shall know mine estrangement [from you].
Deuteronomy 28:18Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, the offspring of thy kine, and the increase of thy sheep.
Deuteronomy 28:41Sons and daughters shalt thou beget, but thou shalt not have them [to be with thee]; for they shall go into captivity.
Deuteronomy 32:25From without shall the sword bereave them, and in the chambers, terror Both the young man and the virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
1 Samuel 16:14And the Spirit of Jehovah departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Jehovah troubled him.
2 Kings 17:18Therefore Jehovah was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there remained but the tribe of Judah only.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 9:12-17
Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 740.) 11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. 12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them! 13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. 14 Give them, O Lord : what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 15… Read the whole commentary →