Parallel Verses
Amplified
As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird;
No birth, no pregnancy, and [because of their impurity] no conception.
New American Standard Bible
No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!
King James Version
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
Holman Bible
no birth, no gestation, no conception.
International Standard Version
The glory of Ephraim will fly away like a bird no birth, no pregnancy, not even a conception.
A Conservative Version
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird. There shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.
American Standard Version
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.
Bible in Basic English
As for Ephraim, their glory will go in flight like a bird: there will be no birth and no one with child and no giving of life.
Darby Translation
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away as a bird, no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
Julia Smith Translation
Ephraim shall fly away as a bird, their glory of birth and of the womb and of conception.
King James 2000
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Ephraim's glory [is] like a bird; it will fly away-- no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.
Modern King James verseion
Ephraim is like a bird; their glory shall fly away from birth, and from the womb, and from conception.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ephraim flyeth like a bird, so shall their glory also: Insomuch that they shall neither beget, conceive nor bear children.
NET Bible
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!
New Heart English Bible
As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, none with child, and no conception.
The Emphasized Bible
As for Ephraim! like a bird, did their glory, fly away, - no birth, and none with child, no conception.
Webster
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
World English Bible
As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, none with child, and no conception.
Youngs Literal Translation
Ephraim is as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour, without birth, And without womb, and without conception.
Themes
Birds » Rapid flight of, alluded to
Glory » Christ's » Of man, transient
Topics
Interlinear
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References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 9:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ephraim Bereaved Of Offspring
10
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness [an unexpected and refreshing delight];
I saw your fathers (ancestors) as the first ripe fruit on the fig tree in its first season,
But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to shamefulness [the worship of Baal],
And [because of their spiritual and physical adultery] they became as detestable and loathsome as the thing they loved.
As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird;
No birth, no pregnancy, and [because of their impurity] no conception.
Even though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them until not one is left.
Indeed, woe (judgment is coming) to them when I look away and withdraw [My blessing] from them!
Cross References
Hosea 4:7
The more they multiplied [in numbers and increased in power], the more they sinned against Me;
I will change their glory into shame.
Hosea 9:14
Give them [the punishment they deserve], O Lord! What will You give?
Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Hosea 10:5
The people of Samaria will fear and tremble
For the [idolatrous] calf of
Indeed, its people will mourn over it
And its idolatrous priests will cry out and wail over it,
Over its glory, because the glory [of their calf god] has departed from it.
Genesis 41:52
He named the second [son] Ephraim (fruitfulness), for “God has caused me to be fruitful and very successful in the land of my suffering.”
Genesis 48:16-20
The
Bless the boys;
And may my name live on in them [may they be worthy of having their names linked with mine],
And the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
And may they grow into a [great] multitude in the midst of the earth.”
Genesis 49:22
“Joseph is a fruitful bough (a main branch of the vine),
A fruitful bough by a spring (a well, a fountain);
Its branches run over the wall [influencing others].
Deuteronomy 28:18
“The offspring of your body and the produce of your land, the offspring of your herd and the young of your flock will be cursed.
Deuteronomy 28:57
and toward her afterbirth that comes from between her legs and toward the children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the misery by which your enemy will oppress you in your cities.
Deuteronomy 33:17
“His majesty is like a firstborn young bull,
And his horns like the horns of the wild ox;
With them he will gore the peoples,
All of them together, to the ends of the earth.
And those are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
And those are the thousands of Manasseh.”
Job 18:5
“Indeed, the light of the wicked will be put out,
And the flame of his fire will not shine.
Job 18:18-19
“He is driven and propelled from light into darkness,
And chased from the inhabited world.
Psalm 58:8
Let them be as a snail which melts away (secretes slime) as it goes along,
Like the miscarriage of a woman which never sees the sun.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they may be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he is not respected and is not given a proper burial [he is not laid to rest in the sepulcher of his fathers], then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,
Amos 1:13
Thus says the Lord,
“For three transgressions of the children of
I will not reverse its punishment or revoke My word concerning it,
Because the Ammonites have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead,
That they might enlarge their border.
Luke 23:29