Hosea 9:12
Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
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Numbers 14:34After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’
Deuteronomy 28:18The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.
Deuteronomy 28:41You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
Deuteronomy 32:25Outside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.
1 Samuel 16:14Now the LORD’s Spirit departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.
2 Kings 17:18Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
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 →