Hosea 9:11

God's Word

“Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no more pregnancies, births, or babies.

Cross References

Genesis 41:52

He named the second son Ephraim [Blessed Twice With Children], because God gave him children in the land where he had suffered.

Genesis 49:22

“Joseph is a fruitful tree, a fruitful tree by a spring, with branches climbing over a wall.

2 Samuel 6:23

So Saul’s daughter Michal was childless her entire life.

Job 18:5

“Indeed, the light of the wicked is snuffed out. The flame of his fire stops glowing.

Psalm 58:8

Let them become like a snail that leaves behind a slimy trail or like a stillborn child who never sees the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

Suppose a rich person wasn’t satisfied with good things ⌞while he was alive⌟ and didn’t even get an honorable burial ⌞after he died⌟. Suppose he had a hundred children and lived for many years. No matter how long he would have lived, it ⌞still⌟ would have been better for him to have been born dead.

Isaiah 17:3

Fortified cities will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom will disappear from Damascus. The remaining few from Aram will share Israel’s honor,” declares the Lord of Armies.

Hosea 10:5

Those who live in Samaria fear the calf-shaped idol at Beth Aven. The people will mourn over it. The priests will cry loudly because its glory will be taken away into captivity.

Hosea 4:7

The more priests there are, the more they sin against me. So I will turn their glory into shame.

Hosea 5:9

Ephraim will become a wasteland when the time for punishment comes. I will make the truth known among the tribes of Israel.

Hosea 9:14

Lord, give them what they deserve. Make the women miscarry, or else make them unable to nurse their babies.

Amos 1:13

This is what the Lord says: Because Ammon has committed three crimes, and now a fourth crime, I will not change my plans. The Ammonites enlarged their territory by ripping open pregnant women in Gilead.

Luke 23:29

The time is coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the women who couldn’t get pregnant, who couldn’t give birth, and who couldn’t nurse a child.’

Deuteronomy 28:18

You will be cursed. You will have few children. Your land will have few crops. Your cattle will be cursed with few calves, and your flocks will have few lambs and kids.

Deuteronomy 28:57

She won’t share with them the afterbirth from her body and the children she gives birth to. She will secretly eat them out of dire necessity, because of the hardships your enemies will make you suffer during the blockade of your cities.

Deuteronomy 33:17

They will be as majestic as a firstborn bull. Their horns will be like the horns of a wild ox. They will use them to push away nations including those at the ends of the earth. The tens of thousands from the tribe of Ephraim and the thousands from the tribe of Manasseh will be like this.”