Tree of Life Version
Hosea 9:11
11Ephraim’s glory flies 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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Ephraim's glory shall 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!
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 sin. 10“Like grapes in the wilderness I found Israel. Like early fruit on a fig tree in its first season I saw your fathers. They came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame. So they became as detestable as the thing they loved. Ephraim’s glory flies away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception! 12For if they should raise their children, I would make them childless to the last man. Yes, woe to them when I depart from them! 13Ephraim, as I have seen, is like Tyre, planted in a meadow, but Ephraim will bring his children out to the slayer.”
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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 41:52And the second he named Ephraim, “because God has made me fruitful in the land of my oppression.”
- Genesis 48:16The Angel who redeemed me from all evil, May He bless the boys, and may they be called by my name, and by the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac. May they multiply to a multitude in the midst of the land.”
- Genesis 49:22A fruitful son is Joseph, a fruitful son beside a spring— daughters walk along a wall.
- Deuteronomy 33:17The firstborn ox—majesty is his. His horns are the horns of the wild ox. With them he gores peoples, all at once, to the ends of the earth. They are the myriads of Ephraim, they are the thousands of Manasseh.’
- Job 18:5Indeed, the light of the wicked is snuffed out; the flame of his fire does not shine.
- Psalms 58:8Let them flow away like water that runs off. When he bends his bow, let the arrows be cut off.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3Even if a man should father a hundred children and live many years, however many the days of his years may be, yet his soul is never satisfied with his prosperity and he does not have a proper burial, then I say that it is better for the stillborn than him.
- Amos 1:13Thus says Adonai: For three crimes of the sons of Ammon even for four, I will not relent. For they ripped open pregnant women of Gilead to expand their territory,
- Hosea 9:14Give them, Adonai, what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dried up breasts.
- Deuteronomy 28:18“Cursed will be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your soil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.
- Luke 23:29For indeed, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are barren, and the wombs that never gave birth, and the breasts that did not feed.’
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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