English Standard Version
Hosea 9:11
11Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
Hosea 9:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
- New International Version (NIV)Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.
- New King James Version (NKJV)As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird— No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!
- New Living Translation (NLT)The glory of Israel will fly away like a bird, for your children will not be born or grow in the womb or even be conceived.
Context of Hosea 9:11
9They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins. 10Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved. Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception! 12Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them! 13Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow; but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.
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אֶפְרַ֕יִם כָּע֖וֹף יִתְעוֹפֵ֣ף כְּבוֹדָ֑ם מִלֵּדָ֥ה וּמִבֶּ֖טֶן וּמֵהֵרָיֽוֹן׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Hosea 9:11
- Genesis 41:52The name of the second he called Ephraim, "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."
- Genesis 48:16the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys; and in them let my name be carried on, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."
- Genesis 49:22"Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall.
- Deuteronomy 33:17A firstborn bull—he has majesty, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he shall gore the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth; they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh."
- Job 18:5"Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.
- Psalms 58:8Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
- Amos 1:13Thus says the Lord: "For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.
- Hosea 9:14Give them, O Lord— what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
- Deuteronomy 28:18Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.
- Luke 23:29For behold, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!'
Commentaries on Hosea 9:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11Their glory shall fly away - It shall suddenly spring away from them, and return no more. From the birth - "So that there shall be no birth, no carrying in the womb, no conception." - Newcome. They shall cease to glory in their numbers; for no children shall be born, no woman shall be pregnant, for none shall conceive. Here judgment blasts the very germs of population.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-17Verses 11-17 . God departs from a people, or from a person, when he withdraws his goodness and mercy from them; and when the Lord is departed, what can the creature do? Even though, for the present, good things seem to remain, yet the blessing is gone if God is gone. Even the children should perish with the parents. The Divine wrath dries up the root, and withers the fruit of all comforts; and the scattered Jews daily warn us to beware, lest we neglect or…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11Israel worshiped the baals in hopes of having many children. But God would punish them by preventing conception, pregnancy, and birth.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. their glory shall fly away--fit retribution to those who "separated themselves unto that shame" (Ho 9:10). Children were accounted the glory of parents; sterility, a reproach. "Ephraim" means "fruitfulness" (Ge 41:52); this its name shall cease to be its characteristic. from the birth ... womb ... conception--Ephraim's children shall perish in a threefold gradation; (1) From the time of birth. (2) From the time of pregnancy. (3) From the time of their…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Hosea 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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