Hosea 9:11
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.”
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“Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.”
King James Version · Public Domain“As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Ephraim <FI>is<Fi> as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour, without birth, And without womb, and without conception.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Hosea 9:11 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 41:52And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
- Genesis 48:16the angel who has redeemed me from all harm— may He bless these boys. And may they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.”
- Genesis 49:22Joseph is a fruitful vine— a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.
- Deuteronomy 28:18The fruit of your womb will be cursed, as well as the produce of your land, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
- Deuteronomy 28:57the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.
- Deuteronomy 33:17His majesty is like a firstborn bull, and his horns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the myriads of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of Manasseh.”
- 2 Samuel 6:23And Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.
- Job 18:5Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
- Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
- Psalms 58:8Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
- Hosea 4:7The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; they exchanged their Glory for a thing of disgrace.
- Hosea 9:14Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!
- Hosea 10:5The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn with its idolatrous priests— those who rejoiced in its glory— for it has been taken from them into exile.
- Amos 1:13This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.
- Luke 23:29Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
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