Parallel Verses

Amplified


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

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 [an unexpected and refreshing delight];
I saw your fathers (ancestors) as the first ripe fruit on the fig tree in its first season,
But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to shamefulness [the worship of Baal],
And [because of their spiritual and physical adultery] they became as detestable and loathsome as the thing they loved.
11 
As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird;
No birth, no pregnancy, and [because of their impurity] no conception.
12
Even though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them until not one is left.
Indeed, woe (judgment is coming) to them when I look away and withdraw [My blessing] from them!



Cross References

Hosea 4:7


The more they multiplied [in numbers and increased in power], the more they sinned against Me;
I will change their glory into shame.

Hosea 9:14


Give them [the punishment they deserve], O Lord! What will You give?
Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Hosea 10:5


The people of Samaria will fear and tremble
For the [idolatrous] calf of Beth-aven (House of Wickedness).
Indeed, its people will mourn over it
And its idolatrous priests will cry out and wail over it,
Over its glory, because the glory [of their calf god] has departed from it.

Genesis 41:52

He named the second [son] Ephraim (fruitfulness), for “God has caused me to be fruitful and very successful in the land of my suffering.”

Genesis 48:16-20


The Angel [that is, the Lord Himself] who has redeemed me [continually] from all evil,
Bless the boys;
And may my name live on in them [may they be worthy of having their names linked with mine],
And the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
And may they grow into a [great] multitude in the midst of the earth.”

Genesis 49:22


“Joseph is a fruitful bough (a main branch of the vine),
A fruitful bough by a spring (a well, a fountain);
Its branches run over the wall [influencing others].

Deuteronomy 28:18

“The offspring of your body and the produce of your land, the offspring of your herd and the young of your flock will be cursed.

Deuteronomy 28:57

and toward her afterbirth that comes from between her legs and toward the children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the misery by which your enemy will oppress you in your cities.

Deuteronomy 33:17


“His majesty is like a firstborn young bull,
And his horns like the horns of the wild ox;
With them he will gore the peoples,
All of them together, to the ends of the earth.
And those are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
And those are the thousands of Manasseh.”

Job 18:5


“Indeed, the light of the wicked will be put out,
And the flame of his fire will not shine.

Job 18:18-19


“He is driven and propelled from light into darkness,
And chased from the inhabited world.

Psalm 58:8


Let them be as a snail which melts away (secretes slime) as it goes along,
Like the miscarriage of a woman which never sees the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they may be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he is not respected and is not given a proper burial [he is not laid to rest in the sepulcher of his fathers], then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,

Amos 1:13


Thus says the Lord,
“For three transgressions of the children of Ammon and for four (multiplied delinquencies)
I will not reverse its punishment or revoke My word concerning it,
Because the Ammonites have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead,
That they might enlarge their border.

Luke 23:29

For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not given birth, and the breasts that have never nursed.’

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