Hosea 9:11

Ephraim! Like a bird that flies away so shall your glory be—no births, no pregnancies, no conceptions.

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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

10When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the desert. When I saw your forefathers it was like seeing early fruit on the fig tree. But when they came to Baal Peor, they gave themselves over to that shameful idol, becoming as filthy as the filthy thing they loved.

12Even if they bring up children, I will make sure they do not survive. What a disaster for you when I turn away from you!

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Cross References

Genesis 41:52His second son he named Ephraim, because he said, “God has made me fruitful in the country of my misery.”

Genesis 49:22Joseph is a fruitful tree, a fruitful tree beside a spring, whose branches climb over the wall.

Deuteronomy 28:57She will even secretly eat the babies she gives birth to, as well as the afterbirth, since she doesn't have anything else because of the siege and the suffering your enemy has caused in all your towns,

2 Samuel 6:23And Michal, Saul's daughter, never had any children.

Job 18:18They are thrown out of light into darkness, driven from the world.

Ecclesiastes 6:3A man could have one hundred children, and grow old, but it wouldn't matter how long his life was if he couldn't enjoy it and at the end receive a decent burial. I would say that a stillborn child would be better off than him.

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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