Hosea 9:10-17 - Ephraim Bereaved Of Offspring

¹⁰ Like grapes in the desert, found I Israel, like the first-ripe in the fig-tree when it is young, saw I your fathers, - they, entered Baal-peor, and devoted themselves to the Shameful Thing, Then became their abominations like their lusts. ¹¹ As for Ephraim! like a bird, did their glory, fly away, - no birth, and none with child, no conception. ¹² 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! ¹³ Ephraim! just as I provided for Tyre, was planted in a meadow, - yet, Ephraim, must needs bring forth for a murderer his children. ¹⁴ Give them, O Yahweh - what wilt thou give? Give them, a miscarrying womb, and breasts dried up.

¹⁵ All their wickedness, is in Gilgal, yea, there, have I come to hate them, For the wickedness of their doings - out of my house, will I drive them forth, - no more will I love them, all their rulers, are unruly. ¹⁶ Smitten is Ephraim, their root, hath dried up, fruit, shall they not bear, - yea, though they do bring forth, yet will I slay the darlings of their womb. ¹⁷ My God will reject them, because they hearkened not unto him, - that they may become wanderers throughout the nations.