Hosea 9:11

Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.

Majority Standard Bible

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 firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.

12Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them!

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Cross References

Genesis 41:52And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Genesis 49:22Joseph is a fruitful vine—a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.

Deuteronomy 28:57the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.

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

Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

Ecclesiastes 6:3A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off 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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