Hosea 9:11
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
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Genesis 41:52And the name of the second called he Ephraim: for God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
Genesis 49:22Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
Deuteronomy 28:57And towards her young one, her own offspring, and towards her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness with which thy enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
2 Samuel 6:23Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child until 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 begetteth a hundred children , and liveth many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also that he hath 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 →