Hosea 9:11

New English Translation

Ephraim will be like a bird; what they value will fly away. They will not bear children – they will not enjoy pregnancy – they will not even conceive!

Cross References

Genesis 41:52

He named the second child Ephraim, saying, “Certainly God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”

Genesis 49:22

Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough near a spring whose branches climb over the wall.

2 Samuel 6:23

Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, had no children to the day of her death.

Job 18:5

“Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine.

Psalm 58:8

Let them be like a snail that melts away as it moves along! Let them be like stillborn babies that never see the sun!

Ecclesiastes 6:3

Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years – even if he lives a long, long time, but cannot enjoy his prosperity – even if he were to live forever – I would say, “A stillborn child is better off than he is!”

Isaiah 17:3

Fortified cities will disappear from Ephraim, and Damascus will lose its kingdom. The survivors in Syria will end up like the splendor of the Israelites,” says the Lord who commands armies.

Hosea 10:5

The inhabitants of Samaria will lament over the calf idol of Beth Aven. Its people will mourn over it; its idolatrous priests will wail over it, because its splendor will be taken from them into exile.

Hosea 4:7

The more the priests increased in numbers, the more they rebelled against me. They have turned their glorious calling into a shameful disgrace!

Hosea 5:9

Ephraim will be ruined in the day of judgment! What I am declaring to the tribes of Israel will certainly take place!

Hosea 9:14

Give them, O Lord – what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry, and breasts that cannot nurse!

Amos 1:13

This is what the Lord says: “Because the Ammonites have committed three crimes – make that four! – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They ripped open Gilead’s pregnant women so they could expand their territory.

Luke 23:29

For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’

Deuteronomy 28:18

Your children will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

Deuteronomy 28:57

and will secretly eat her afterbirth and her newborn children (since she has nothing else), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

Deuteronomy 33:17

May the firstborn of his bull bring him honor, and may his horns be those of a wild ox; with them may he gore all peoples, all the far reaches of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.