Hosea 9:11

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Ephraim’s glory shall fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!

Cross References

Genesis 41:52

The second he named Ephraim, “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my misfortunes.”

Genesis 49:22

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

2 Samuel 6:23

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

Job 18:5

“Surely the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of their fire does not shine.

Psalm 58:8

Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man may father a hundred children and live many years, but however many are the days of his years, if he does not enjoy life’s good things or has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Isaiah 17:3

The fortress will disappear from Ephraim and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the people of Israel, says the Lord of hosts.

Hosea 10:5

The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Its people shall mourn for it, and its idolatrous priests shall wail over it, over its glory that has departed from it.

Hosea 4:7

The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; they changed their glory into shame.

Hosea 5:9

Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I declare what 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 have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.

Luke 23:29

For the days are surely coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

Deuteronomy 28:18

“Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock.

Deuteronomy 28:57

begrudging even the afterbirth that comes out from between her thighs and the children that she bears, because she is eating them in secret for lack of anything else, in the desperate straits to which the enemy siege will reduce you in your towns.

Deuteronomy 33:17

A firstborn bull—majesty is his! His horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he gores the peoples all together to the ends of the earth; such are the myriads of Ephraim, such the thousands of Manasseh.”