Hosea 9:11

Modern English Version

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!

Cross References

Genesis 41:52

The name of the second he called Ephraim, saying, “For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Genesis 49:22

Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring, whose branches run over the wall.

2 Samuel 6:23

Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.

Job 18:5

“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out, and the spark of his fire will not shine.

Psalm 58:8

Let them be like a snail that melts as it goes, like the stillborn child of a woman, who never sees the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man is a father to a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are numerous, but his life is not satisfied with the many good things, and there is not one of his children to eventually bury him, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he —

Isaiah 17:3

The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram; they shall be as the glory of the Israelites, says the Lord of Hosts.

Hosea 10:5

The inhabitants of Samaria fear because of the calf of Beth-aven. For its people mourn for it, and its priests shriek for it, because its glory has departed from it.

Hosea 4:7

As they increased, so they sinned against Me. I will change their glory into shame.

Hosea 5:9

Ephraim will become desolate in the day of punishment. Among the tribes of Israel I make known that which is sure.

Hosea 9:14

Give them, O  Lord— what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Amos 1:13

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, in order to enlarge their border.

Luke 23:29

For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, who never bore and never nursed!’

Deuteronomy 28:18

Your offspring will be cursed along with the fruit of your land, the produce of your herd, and the flocks of your sheep.

Deuteronomy 28:57

and toward her afterbirth that comes out from between her legs, and toward her children whom she will bear. For she will secretly eat them because of lack during the siege and distress in which your enemy will persecute you in your towns.

Deuteronomy 33:17

His glory is like the firstborn of his bull, and his horns are like the horns of a wild ox; with them he will push the peoples together to the ends of the earth; they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.