Hosea 9:11

As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like a bird from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

In Context

10I found Israel like grapes in the desert, I saw their fathers like the firstfruits of the fig tree in the top thereof: but they went in to Beelphegor, and alienated themselves to that confusion, and became abominable, as those things were, which they loved.

12And though they should bring up their children, I will make them without children among men: yea, and woe to them, when I shall depart from them.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:52And he called the name of the first born Manasses, saying: God hath made me to forget all my labours, and my father's house.

Genesis 49:22Nephtali, a hart let loose, and giving words of beauty.

Deuteronomy 28:57And the filth of the afterbirths, that come forth from between her thighs, and the children that are born the same hour. For they shall eat them secretly for the want of all things, in the siege and distress, wherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee within thy gates.

2 Samuel 6:23Therefore Michol the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.

Job 18:18He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 9:8-11

Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 740.) 7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred. 8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God. 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. 10 I found… Read the whole commentary →

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