Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
Themes
Birds » Rapid flight of, alluded to
Glory » Christ's » Of man, transient
Topics
Interlinear
`uwph
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. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season. But they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that w 11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird. There shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception. 12 Though they bring up their sons, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
Cross References
Hosea 4:7
As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.
Hosea 9:14
Give them, O LORD--what will thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Hosea 10:5
The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in terror for the calves of Beth-aven. For the people of it shall mourn over it, and the priests of it, who rejoiced over it for the glory of it, because it has departed from it.
Genesis 41:52
And the name of the second he called Ephraim, for God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.
Genesis 48:16-20
the [heavenly] agent who has 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.
Genesis 49:22
Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a fountain, his branches run over the wall.
Deuteronomy 28:18
Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flock.
Deuteronomy 28:57
and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her sons whom she shall bear, for she shall eat them secretly for want of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which thine enemy shall distress t
Deuteronomy 33:17
The firstling of his herd, majesty is his. And his horns are the horns of the wild-ox. With them he shall push the peoples, all of them, [even] the ends of the earth. And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thou
Job 18:5
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Job 18:18-19
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Psalm 58:8
as a snail which melts and passes away, [as] the untimely birth of a woman, that has not seen 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, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Amos 1:13
Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.
Luke 23:29
Because, behold, the days are coming, during which they will say, Blessed are the barren, and the bellies that gave no birth, and the breasts that did not suckle.