Hosea 9:11 Ephraim's glory will fly away like a bird-- no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Ephraim's glory will fly away like a bird-- no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.

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

New American Standard Bible
As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird-- No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!

King James Bible
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Ephraim's glory will fly away like a bird: 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.

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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like a bird from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

Darby Bible Translation
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away as a bird, no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!

Young's Literal Translation
Ephraim is as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour, without birth, And without womb, and without conception.

Cross References

Isaiah 17:3
The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, said the LORD of hosts.

Hosea 4:7
As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

Hosea 5:9
Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

Hosea 9:14
Give them, O LORD: what will you give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Hosea 10:5
The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

9:11-17. God departs from a people, or from a person, when he withdraws his goodness and mercy from them; and when the Lord is departed, what can the creature do? Even though, for the present, good things seem to remain, yet the blessing is gone if God is gone. Even the children should perish with the parents. The Divine wrath dries up the root, and withers the fruit of all comforts; and the scattered Jews daily warn us to beware, lest we neglect or abuse the gospel. Yet every smiting is not a drying up of the root. It may be that God intends only to smite so that the sap may be turned to the root, that there may be more of root graces, more humility, patience, faith, and self-denial. It is very just that God should bring judgments on those who slight his offered mercy.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

11. their glory shall fly away—fit retribution to those who "separated themselves unto that shame" (Ho 9:10). Children were accounted the glory of parents; sterility, a reproach. "Ephraim" means "fruitfulness" (Ge 41:52); this its name shall cease to be its characteristic.

from the birth … womb … conception—Ephraim's children shall perish in a threefold gradation; (1) From the time of birth. (2) From the time of pregnancy. (3) From the time of their first conception.