Hosea 9 · Verse 11

Hosea 9:11

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
Hosea 9:11, King James Version

Hosea 9:11 in other translations

BSBEphraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.
WEBAs for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.
ASVAs for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.
YLTEphraim is as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour, without birth, And without womb, and without conception.
DARBYAs for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away as a bird, — no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
BBEAs 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.
WebsterAs for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

What does Hosea 9:11 mean?

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.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 11 Their glory shall fly away - It shall suddenly spring away from them, and return no more. From the birth - "So that there shall be no birth, no carrying in the womb, no conception." - Newcome. They shall cease to glory in their numbers; for no children shall be born, no woman shall be pregnant, for none shall conceive. Here judgment blasts the very germs of population.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hosea 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.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Hosea 9:11 in the original Hebrew

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אֶפְרַ֕יִם'ef.Ra.yimEphraimH669
כָּע֖וֹףka.'oflike <the> birdH5775
יִתְעוֹפֵ֣ףyit.'o.Fefit will fly awayH5774
כְּבוֹדָ֑םke.vo.Damglory theirH3519
מִלֵּדָ֥הmi.le.Dahfrom child bearingH3205
וּמִבֶּ֖טֶןu.mi.Be.tenand from wombH990
וּמֵהֵרָיֽוֹן\׃u.me.he.ra.Yonand from conceptionH2032

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Cross references for Hosea 9:11

  • Hosea 9:14

    Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

  • Genesis 41:52

    And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

  • Hosea 4:7

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

  • Deuteronomy 28:18

    Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

  • 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.

  • Job 18:18-19

    He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

  • Genesis 48:16-20

    The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head unto Manasseh’s head. And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head. And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. …

  • Job 18:5

    Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

  • Genesis 49:22

    Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

  • Deuteronomy 28:57

    And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

  • Luke 23:29

    For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.

  • Deuteronomy 33:17

    His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

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their.
Ge 41:52; 48:16-20; 49:22; De 33:17; Job 18:5,18,19
from the birth.
Ps 58:8; Ec 6:3; Am 1:13
from the womb.
14; De 28:18,57; Lu 23:29

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Context

  • Hosea 9:10

    I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal–peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

  • Hosea 9:11

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

  • Hosea 9:12

    Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

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Hosea 9:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Ephraim, cual ave volará su gloria desde el nacimiento, aun desde el vientre y desde la concepción.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Quant à Éphraïm, leur gloire s’envolera comme un oiseau;… point d’enfantement, point de grossesse, point de conception!
German
Elberfelder 1871		Ephraim-dem Vogel gleich wird ihre Herrlichkeit wegfliegen. Kein Gebären und keine Schwangerschaft und keine Empfängnis:
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Ephraim quasi avis avolavit; gloria eorum a partu, et ab utero, et a conceptu.