Hosea 9:11

As for Ephraim! like a bird, did their glory, fly away,—no birth, and none with child, no conception.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

10Like grapes in the desert, found I Israel, like the first-ripe in the fig-tree when it is young, saw I your fathers,—they, entered Baal-peor, and devoted themselves to the Shameful Thing, Then became their abominations like their lusts.

12Yea, though they rear their children, yet will I make them childless, till there be no human being,—for it is, nothing less than woe, to them when I depart from them!

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Cross References

Genesis 41:52And, the name of the second, called he Ephraim, For God hath made me fruitful in the land of my humiliation.

Genesis 49:22A fruitful bough, is Joseph, A fruitful bough over a fountain,—Branches creeping over a wall.

Deuteronomy 28:57both as to her afterbirth that cometh forth from between her feet and as to her children which she shall bear, for she will eat them for want of all things secretly,—in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemy will straiten thee within thine own gates.

2 Samuel 6:23Therefore, Michal Saul’s daughter, had no child,—unto the day of her death.

Job 18:18Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him;

Ecclesiastes 6:3Though a man should beget a hundred children, and live, many years, so that many should be the days of his years but, his own soul, should not be satisfied with the good, and he should not even have, a burial, I said, Better than he, is an untimely birth!

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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