Hosea 9:11 KJV — MannaFest

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

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ASV

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.

WEB

Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.

YLT

Ephraim is as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour, without birth, And without womb, and without conception.

DBT

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

About this book

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Hosea — A prophet commanded to marry an unfaithful wife — his marriage becomes the sermon. Fourteen chapters on covenant unfaithfulness and a love that will not let Israel go.

Author: Hosea son of Beeri (1:1)
Date: Ministry c. 755–715 BC — the decades leading up to the 722 BC fall of the northern kingdom

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Hosea 10:5
The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth–aven: 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.
Hosea 9:16
Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
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, saith the Lord of hosts.
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 4:7
As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

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Ephraim is as strong and rich as ever Tyre was, and as proud and secure. The Chaldee paraphrase gives this sense of it, The congregation of Israel, while they observed the law, was like to Tyrus in prosperity and security.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles. The people of Israel are charged with spiritual adultery: O Israel! thou hast gone a whoring from thy God,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Note, Worldly glory is glory that will fly away; but those that have their God their glory have in him an unfading everlasting glory. Ephraim has been as a fruitful tree. But now Ephraim is smitten, is blasted; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Their glory - Their children or posterity, which was the glory of Israel. Shall fly - It is proverbial, and speaks a sudden loss of children. From the birth - As soon as born.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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