Hosea 9:11

New American Bible - revised edition

Ephraim is like a bird: their glory flies away— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.

Cross References

Hosea 10:5

The inhabitants of Samaria are afraid for the calf of Beth-aven; Its people mourn for it and its idolatrous priests wail over it, —over its glory which has departed from it.

Hosea 9:14

Give them, Lord! give them what? Give them a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts!

Hosea 4:7

The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against me, I will change their glory into shame.

Deuteronomy 28:18

Cursed be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your soil and the offspring of your livestock, the issue of your herds and the young of your flocks!

Luke 23:29

for indeed, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed.’

Amos 1:13

Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of the Ammonites, and now four— I will not take it back— Because they ripped open pregnant women in Gilead, in order to extend their territory,

Ecclesiastes 6:3

Should one have a hundred children and live many years, no matter to what great age, still if one has not the full benefit of those goods, I proclaim that the child born dead, even if left unburied, is more fortunate.

Psalm 58:8

Make them vanish like water flowing away; trodden down, let them wither like grass.

Job 18:5

Truly, the light of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire casts no light.

Deuteronomy 33:17

His firstborn bull, majesty is his! His horns are the horns of a wild ox; With them he gores the peoples, attacks the ends of the earth. These are the myriads of Ephraim, and these the thousands of Manasseh.

Deuteronomy 28:57

the afterbirth that issues from her womb and the infants she brings forth because she secretly eats them for want of anything else—such the siege and distress to which your enemy will subject you in your communities. Plagues.

Genesis 49:22

“Joseph is a wild colt, a wild colt by a spring, wild colts on a hillside.

Genesis 41:52

and the second he named Ephraim, meaning, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Isaiah 17:3

The fortress shall vanish from Ephraim and dominion from Damascus; The remnant of Aram shall become like the glory of the Israelites— oracle of the Lord of hosts.

Hosea 5:9

Ephraim shall become a wasteland on the day of punishment: Among the tribes of Israel I announce what is sure to be.

2 Samuel 6:23

Saul’s daughter Michal was childless to the day she died.