Hosea 9:11

Ephraim [is] as a bird, their glory flies away, without birth, and without womb, and without conception.

Literal Standard Version

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

10As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, || As the first-fruit in a fig tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, || They have gone in [to] Ba‘al-Peor, || And are separated to a shameful thing, || And have become abominable like their love.

12For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless—without man, || Surely also, woe to them when I turn aside from them.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:52and the name of the second he has called Ephraim: “For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Genesis 49:22Joseph [is] a fruitful son; A fruitful son by a fountain, || Daughters step over the wall;

Deuteronomy 28:57and against her seed which comes out from between her feet, even against her sons whom she bears, for she eats them in secret, in the lacking of everything, in the siege and in the constriction with which your enemy constricts you within your gates.

2 Samuel 6:23As for Michal daughter of Saul, she had no child until the day of her death.

Job 18:18They thrust him from light to darkness, || And cast him out from the habitable earth.

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man begets one hundred, and lives many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he has not had a grave, I have said, “Better than he [is] the untimely birth.”

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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