The name of the second he called Ephraim, “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
Hosea 9:11 - Revised Standard Version Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception! Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird; there shall be no birth, no being with child, and [because of their impurity] no becoming pregnant. American Standard Version (1901) As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception. Common English Bible Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception! Catholic Public Domain Version Ephraim has chased away their glory like a bird: from birth, and from the womb, and from conception. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like a bird from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. |
The name of the second he called Ephraim, “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall.
And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.
“Yea, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.
Let them be like the snail which dissolves into slime, like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.
If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but he does not enjoy life's good things, and also has no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better off than he.
The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord of hosts.
The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Its people shall mourn for it, and its idolatrous priests shall wail over it, over its glory which has departed from it.
The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame.
Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I declare what is sure.
Give them, O Lord— what wilt thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they have ripped up women with child in Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.
For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never gave suck!’
Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because she will eat them secretly, for want of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
His firstling bull has majesty, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he shall push the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth; such are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of Manasseh.”