Hosea 9:16

Ephraim is blighted, their root withered. If they do bear children, I will slay the darlings of their womb,

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In The King James Version

Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

In Context

15All their evil began in Gilgal, there I learned to hate them. Because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will no longer love them, for all their princes are rebels.

17My God will reject them because they have not listened to him, and they will become wanderers among the nations.

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Cross References

Hosea 8:7They sow the wind and will reap the whirlwind. A shoot which has no stalk, yields no fruit If it should yield, strangers would devour it.

Malachi 4:1“The day is coming that will burn like a furnace, and all the proud and all evildoers will be stubble, and the day that is coming will burn them up,” says the Lord of hosts, “leaving neither root nor branch.

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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