Hosea 9:12
For 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.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
11Ephraim has flown away as a bird; their glories from the birth, and the travail, and the conception.
Cross References
Numbers 14:34According to the number of the days during which ye spied the land, forty days, a day for a year, ye shall bear your sins forty years, and ye shall know my fierce anger.
Deuteronomy 28:18Cursed shall be the offspring of thy body, and the fruits of thy land, the herds of thine oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep.
Deuteronomy 28:41Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and they shall not be thine, for they shall depart into captivity.
Deuteronomy 32:25Without, the sword shall bereave them of children, 1 And terror shall issue out of the secret chambers; 1 The young man shall perish with the virgin, 1 The suckling with him who has grown old. 1
1 Samuel 16:14And the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented him.
2 Kings 17:18And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight; and there was only left the tribe of Judah quite alone.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 9:12-17
Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 740.) 11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. 12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them! 13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. 14 Give them, O Lord : what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 15… Read the whole commentary →