Hosea 9:11

As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. 1 There will be no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception. 1

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As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

In Context

10Yahweh says, “When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. 1 Like the very first fruit of the season on the fig tree, I found your fathers. 1 But they went to Baal Peor, 1 and they devoted themselves to that shameful idol. 1 They became as detestable as the idol they loved. 1

12Though they have brought up children, 1 I will take them away so that none of them is left. 1 Woe to them when I turn away from them! 1

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Cross References

Genesis 41:52He called the name of the second son Ephraim, for he said, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Genesis 49:22Joseph is a fruitful bough, 1 a fruitful bough near a spring, 1 whose branches climb over the wall. 1

Deuteronomy 28:57and of her own newborn that comes out from between her legs, and of the children whom she will bear. She will eat them in private for lack of anything else, during the siege and in the distress which your enemy will put upon you within your city gates.

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

Job 18:18He will be driven from light into darkness 1 and be chased out of this world. 1

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but if his heart is not satisfied with good and he is not buried, then I say that a baby that is born dead is better off than he is.

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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