Hosea 9:11

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird; there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 wilderness, I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at her first season; but so soon as they came to Baal-peor, they separated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became detestable like that which they loved.

12Yea, though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there be not a man left; yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

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Cross References

Genesis 41:52And the name of the second called he Ephraim: 'for God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.'

Genesis 49:22Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a fountain; its branches run over the wall.

Deuteronomy 28:57and against her afterbirth that cometh out from between her feet, and against her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly; in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall straiten thee in thy gates.

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

Job 18:18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul have not enough of good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that 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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