Hosea 9:11

Ephraim has flown away as a bird; their glories from the birth, and the travail, and the conception.

Brenton Septuagint

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 as grapes in the wilderness, and I saw their fathers as an early watchman in a fig-tree: they went in to Beel-phegor, and were shamefully estranged, and the abominable became as the beloved.

12For even if they should rear their children, yet shall they be utterly bereaved: wherefore also there is woe to them, though my flesh is of them.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:52And he called the name of the second, Ephraim; for God, said he, has increased me in the land of my humiliation.

Genesis 49:22Joseph is a son increased; my dearly loved son is increased; my youngest son, turn to me.

Deuteronomy 28:57and her + 28:57 Lit. afterbirth.offspring that comes out between her feet, and the child which she shall bear; for she shall eat them because of the want of all things, secretly in thy straitness, and in thy affliction, with which thine enemy shall afflict thee in thy cities.

2 Samuel 6:23And Melchol the daughter of Saul had no child till the day of her death.

Job 18:18Let one drive him from light into darkness.

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, yea, however abundant the days of his years shall be, yet if his soul shall not be satisfied with good, and also he have no burial; I said, An untimely birth 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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