Hosea 9:11

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there is no more birth, and no pregnancy, and no conception.

Leeser Tanakh

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

10Like grapes in the wilderness had I found Israel; as the first ripe fruit on the fig-tree in the first of the season had I seen your fathers; but they too went to Ba'al-pe'or: and devoted themselves unto that shameful idol, and became abominations as those they loved.

12But though they were to bring up their children, yet would I bereave them, that there should be no man: yea, woe also to themselves, when I depart from them!

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Cross References

Genesis 41:52And the name of the second he called Ephraim; For God [said he] hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

Genesis 49:22Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; the branches of which run over the wall.

Deuteronomy 28:57And toward her young one that is come from between her feet, and toward her children which she hath born; for she shall eat them for want of every thing secretly, in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thy enemy will distress thee in thy gates.

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

Job 18:18Men will thrust him out from light into darkness, and out of the world will they drive him.

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man were to beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years were many, and his soul were not satisfied with what is good, and he have not had even a burial: then do 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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