Hosea 9:11

Ephraim Bereaved Of Offspring

¹⁰ I discovered Israel
like grapes in the wilderness.
I saw your fathers
like the first fruit of the fig tree in its first season.
But they went to Baal-peor,
consecrated themselves to Shame,
and became detestable,
like the thing they loved.
¹¹ Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird:
no birth, no gestation, no conception.
¹² Even if they raise children,
I will bereave them of each one.
Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!

Ephraim

No

Hosea 4:7

The more they multiplied,
the more they sinned against Me.
I will change their honor into disgrace.

Hosea 9:14

Give them, Lord—
What should You give?
Give them a womb that miscarries
and breasts that are dry!

Hosea 10:5

The residents of Samaria will have anxiety
over the calf of Beth-aven.
Indeed, its idolatrous priests rejoiced over it;
the people will mourn over it,
over its glory.
It will certainly depart from them.

Genesis 41:52

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

Genesis 48:16-20

the Angel who has redeemed me from all harm—
may He bless these boys.
And may they be called by my name
and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac,
and may they grow to be numerous within the land.

Genesis 49:22

Joseph is a fruitful vine,
a fruitful vine beside a spring;
its branches climb over the wall.

Deuteronomy 28:18

Your descendants will be cursed,
and your land’s produce,
the young of your herds,
and the newborn of your flocks.

Deuteronomy 28:57

the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you within your gates.

Deuteronomy 33:17

His firstborn bull has splendor,
and horns like those of a wild ox;
he gores all the peoples with them
to the ends of the earth.
Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
and such are the thousands of Manasseh.

Job 18:5

Yes, the light of the wicked is extinguished;
the flame of his fire does not glow.

Job 18:18-19

He is driven from light to darkness
and chased from the inhabited world.

Psalm 58:8

Like a slug that moves along in slime,
like a woman’s miscarried child,
they will not see the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man may father a hundred children and live many years. No matter how long he lives, if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Amos 1:13

The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing the Ammonites
for three crimes, even four,
because they ripped open
the pregnant women of Gilead
in order to enlarge their territory.

Luke 23:29

Look, the days are coming when they will say, ‘The women without children, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed, are fortunate!’