And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.
Hosea 9:11 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception. More versionsKing 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. |
And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.
Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a fountain; His branches run over the wall.
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away: Like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.
If a man beget an hundred children and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria; they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in terror for the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced over it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame.
Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.
Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, the increase of thy kine, and the young of thy flock.
and toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly: in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall straiten thee in thy gates.
The firstling of his bullock, majesty is his; And his horns are the horns of the wild-ox: With them he shall push the peoples all of them, even the ends of the earth: And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.