Hosea 9:17

God shall reject them, because they have not hearkened to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

In Context

16Ephraim is sick, he is dried up at his roots, he shall in nowise anymore bear fruit: wherefore even if they should beget children, I will kill the desired fruit of their womb.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:27And the Lord shall scatter you among all nations, and ye shall be left few in number among all the nations, among which the Lord shall bring you.

Deuteronomy 32:26I said, I will scatter them, 1 And I will cause their memorial to cease from among men. 1

2 Chronicles 18:13And Micaiah said, As the Lord lives, whatever God shall say to me, that will I speak.

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 →

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