Hosea 9:16

Ephrayim is struck, 1 their shoresh (root) is dried up, 1 they shall bear no fruit; 1 yea, though they bring forth, 1 yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their beten (womb). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 wickedness is in Gilgal; 1 for there I hated them; 1 for the wickedness of their doings 1 I will drive them out of Mine bais, 1 I will love them no more; 1 all their sarim (princes) are sorerim (rebels). 1

17My G-d will cast them away, 1 because they did not pay heed unto Him; 1 and they shall be nodedim (wanderers) among the Goyim.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:25The cherev without, 1 and terror within, 1 shall destroy both the bochur and the betulah, 1 the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. 1

Isaiah 5:24Therefore as the eish licketh up the stubble, 1 and the flame consumeth the dry grass, 1 so their shoresh shall be as rottenness, 1 and their blossom shall go up as dust; 1 because they have cast away the Torat Hashem Tzva'os, 1 and spurned the word of the Kadosh Yisroel. 1

Ezekiel 24:21Speak unto Bais Yisroel, Thus saith Adonoi Hashem: Hineni, I will desecrate My Mikdash, the ga'on (pride) of your power, the makhmad of your + 24:21 plural eynayim, and the very passion of your nefesh; and your banim and your banot whom ye have left behind shall fall by the cherev.

Hosea 8:7For they have sown the wind, 1 and they shall reap the whirlwind; 1 the stalk [of standing grain] hath no tzemach (shoot); 1 it shall yield no kemach (flour); 1 and even if it yielded it, zarim would devour it. 1

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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