Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ephraim flyeth like a bird, so shall their glory also: Insomuch that they shall neither beget, conceive nor bear children.
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.
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.
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
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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, and saw their fathers as the first figs in the top of the fig tree. But they are gone to Baalpeor, and run away from me to that shameful Idol, and are become as abominable as their lovers. 11 Ephraim flyeth like a bird, so shall their glory also: Insomuch that they shall neither beget, conceive nor bear children. 12 And though they bring up any, yet will I make them childless among men. Yea, woe shall come to them, when I depart from them.
Cross References
Hosea 4:7
The more they increased in multitude, the more they sinned against me, therefore will I change their honour into shame.
Hosea 9:14
O LORD thou shalt give them: what shalt thou give them? Give them an unfruitful womb and dry breasts!
Hosea 10:5
They that dwell in Samaria have worshiped the calf of Bethaven: therefore shall the people mourn over them, yea and the priests also, that in their wealthiness rejoiced with them. And why? It shall pass away from them.
Genesis 41:52
The second called he Ephraim, "For God," said he, "hath caused me to grow in the land of my trouble."
Genesis 48:16-20
And the angel which hath delivered me from all evil, bless these lads: that they may be called after my name, and after my father Abraham and Isaac, and that they may grow and multiply upon the earth."
Genesis 49:22
"That flourishing child, Joseph; that flourishing child, and goodly unto the eye! The daughters come forth to bear rule;
Deuteronomy 28:18
Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy land be and the fruit of thine oxen and the flocks of thy sheep.
Deuteronomy 28:57
even because of the afterbirth, that is come out from between her legs, and because of her children which she hath borne, because she would eat them for need of all things; secretly, in the straitness and siege wherewith thine enemy shall besiege thee in thy cities.
Deuteronomy 33:17
His beauty is as a firstborn ox and his horns as the horns of an unicorn. And with them he shall push the nations together, even unto the ends of the world. These are the many thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh."
Job 18:5
Shall not the light of the ungodly be put out? Yea, the flame of his fire shall not burn.
Job 18:18-19
he shall be driven from the light into darkness, and cast clean out of the world.
Psalm 58:8
Let them consume away like a snail, and like the untimely fruit of a woman; and let them not see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget a hundredth children, and live many years, so that his days are many in number, and yet cannot enjoy his good, neither be buried: as for him I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Amos 1:13
Thus sayeth the LORD, 'For three and four wickednesses of the children of Ammon, I will not spare them: because they ripped up the women great with child in Gilead, to make the borders of their lands the wider.
Luke 23:29
For behold, the days will come, when men shall say, 'Happy are the barren and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.'