Parallel Verses

King James 2000

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!

New American Standard Bible

Though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them until not a man is left.
Yes, woe to them indeed when I depart from them!

King James Version

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!

Holman Bible

Even if they raise children,
I will bereave them of each one.
Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!

International Standard Version

Even if they rear their children, I will, in turn, make them childless in fact, woe to them when I turn away from them!

A Conservative Version

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!

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


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!

Bible in Basic English

Even though their children have come to growth I will take them away, so that not a man will be there; for their evil-doing will be complete and they will be put to shame because of it.

Darby Translation

For even should they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that not a man remain: for woe also to them when I shall have departed from them!

Julia Smith Translation

But if they shall bring up their sons and I bereaved them from man: but also wo to them in my departing from them.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Even though they bring up their children, I will bereave them before maturity. Woe to them indeed, when I depart from them!

Modern King James verseion

Though they bring up their sons, yet I will make them childless, without a man. Yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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.

NET Bible

Even if they raise their children, I will take away every last one of them. Woe to them! For I will turn away from them.

New Heart English Bible

Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them.

The Emphasized Bible

Yea, though they rear their children, yet will I make them childless, till there be no human being, - for it is, nothing less than woe, to them when I depart from them!

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless -- without man, Surely also, woe to them, when I turn aside from them.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּדל 
Gadal 
Usage: 115

yet will I bereave
שׁכל 
Shakol 
Usage: 23

them, that there shall not be a man
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

אוי 
'owy 
Usage: 24

שׂוּר סוּר 
Cuwr 
Usage: 301

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Hosea 9:12

References

Context Readings

Ephraim Bereaved Of Offspring

11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, no birth, no pregnancy, no conception. 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! 13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

Cross References

Hosea 7:13

Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

Deuteronomy 31:17

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?

1 Samuel 28:15-16

And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am much distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called you, that you may make known unto me what I shall do.

Numbers 26:65

For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and your daughters shall be given unto another people, and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no strength in your hand.

Deuteronomy 28:41-42

You shall beget sons and daughters, but you shall not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.

Deuteronomy 32:25

The sword outside, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the nursing child also with the man of gray hairs.

Judges 4:16

But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the army, unto Harosheth of the nations: and all the host of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.

1 Samuel 16:14

But the spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

2 Kings 17:18

Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.

2 Kings 17:23

Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.

Job 27:14

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Jeremiah 15:7

And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.

Jeremiah 16:3-4

For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bore them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

Lamentations 2:20

Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom you have done this. Shall the women eat their offspring, the children of their tender care? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Hosea 9:5-6

What will you do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

Hosea 9:13

Ephraim, as I saw Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

Hosea 9:16

Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even their beloved children.

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