Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird—
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

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.

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.

Amplified


As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird;
No birth, no pregnancy, and [because of their impurity] 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אפרים 
'Ephrayim 
Usage: 180

כּבד כּבוד 
Kabowd 
Usage: 200

עוּף 
`uwph 
Usage: 28

עוף 
`owph 
Usage: 71

from the birth
ילד 
Yalad 
Usage: 497

and from the womb
בּטן 
Beten 
Usage: 72

References

Context Readings

Ephraim Bereaved Of Offspring

10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the early fruit of the fig tree in her beginning; but they went in unto Baalpeor and separated themselves unto shame and made themselves as abominable as that which they loved. 11 As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!
12 Though they bring up their sons, yet I will bereave them, that there shall not be a man left; yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

Cross References

Hosea 4:7

According to their greatness, so did they sin against me; therefore I will change their honour into shame.

Hosea 9:14

Give them, O LORD, that which thou must give them; 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 because of the calf, and the religious persons thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, which shall be made to vanish away.

Genesis 41:52

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

Genesis 48:16-20

the Angel who frees me from all evil, bless these young men, 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.

Genesis 49:22

Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a fountain, whose daughters run over the wall.

Deuteronomy 28:18

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

Deuteronomy 28:57

and toward her young one that comes 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 with which thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates,

Deuteronomy 33:17

His beauty is like the firstborn 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; these are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and these are the thousands of Manasseh.

Job 18:5

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

Job 18:18-19

He shall be driven from the light into the darkness and chased out of the world.

Psalm 58:8

As a snail which melts, let them pass away, like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man begets a hundred sons and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his soul is not filled with good and also that he have no burial; I say that an aborted birth is better than he.

Amos 1:13

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon and for the fourth, I will not convert her because they have ripped off the mountains of Gilead that they might enlarge their border:

Luke 23:29

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

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