Hosea 9:11

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.

Revised Version 1895

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

10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there be not a man left: yea, woe also 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 affliction.

Genesis 49:22Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a fountain; His branches run over the wall.

Deuteronomy 28:57and toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly: in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall straiten thee in thy gates.

2 Samuel 6:23And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.

Job 18:18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget an hundred children and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

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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