Hosea 9:11

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

As for Ephraim! like a bird, did their glory, fly away, - no birth, and none with child, no conception.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
"Like a bird, Ephraim's glory will fly away. There will be no more pregnancies, no more births, and no more babies.

New Living Translation
The glory of Israel will fly away like a bird, for your children will not be born or grow in the womb or even be conceived.

New American Standard Bible
As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird— No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!

New Century Version
Israel's glory will fly away like a bird; there will be no more pregnancy, no more births, no more getting pregnant.

New English Translation
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!

Update Bible Version
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and no pregnancy, and no conception.

Webster's Bible Translation
[As for] Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

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

English Standard Version
Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no 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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Effraym as a brid fley awei; the glorye of hem is of childberyng, and of the wombe, and of conseyuyng.

English Revised Version
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.

Berean Standard Bible
Ephraim's glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.

Contemporary English Version
And so, Israel, your glory will fly away like birds— your women will no longer be able to give birth.

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.

Complete Jewish Bible
The glory of Efrayim will fly away like a bird — no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.

Darby Translation
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away as a bird,—no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!

JPS Old Testament (1917)
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird; there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.

King James Version (1611)
As for Ephraim, their glory shall flee away like a bird: from the birth and from the wombe, and from the conception.

New Life Bible
Ephraim's greatness will fly away like a bird. There will be no more children born to them, and they will not be able to have children.

New Revised Standard
Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!

Geneva Bible (1587)
Ephraim their glorie shall flee away like a birde: from the birth and from the wombe, and from the conception.

George Lamsa Translation
As for Ephraim, their glory has flown away like a bird, they are cut off from the birth, from the womb, and from the conception.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like bird from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

Revised Standard Version
E'phraim's glory shall fly away like a bird--no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ephraim their glorie shall flee away like a birde: for birth, for wombe, and conception.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ephraim has flown away as a bird; their glories from the birth, and the travail, and the conception.

Good News Translation
Israel's greatness will fly away like a bird, and there will be no more children born to them, no more women pregnant, no more children conceived.

Christian Standard Bible®
Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird:no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.

Hebrew Names Version
As for Efrayim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, none with child, 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.

Lexham English Bible
Ephraim's glory is like a bird; it will fly away— no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.

Literal Translation
Ephraim is like a bird; their glory shall fly away, from birth, and from the womb, and from conception.

Young's Literal Translation
Ephraim [is] as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour, without birth, And without womb, and without conception.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ephraim flieth like a byrde, so shal their glory also: In so moch, yt they shal nether begette, coceaue ner beare children.

New King James Version
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird-- No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!

New American Standard Bible (1995)
As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird— No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!

Legacy Standard Bible
As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird—No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!

Contextual Overview

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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

their: Genesis 41:52, Genesis 48:16-20, Genesis 49:22, Deuteronomy 33:17, Job 18:5, Job 18:18, Job 18:19

from the birth: Psalms 58:8, Ecclesiastes 6:3, Amos 1:13

from the womb: Hosea 9:14, Deuteronomy 28:18, Deuteronomy 28:57, Luke 23:29

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 6:23 - Michal 1 Kings 14:16 - he shall give Israel Job 19:9 - stripped Isaiah 9:14 - will cut Isaiah 17:3 - they shall Isaiah 23:4 - I travail Isaiah 28:4 - shall be Isaiah 65:23 - shall Hosea 4:10 - they shall commit Hosea 5:1 - for Hosea 5:9 - Ephraim Hosea 9:16 - their root Hosea 10:5 - for the glory Hosea 13:15 - his spring Amos 9:8 - and I Malachi 2:2 - and I

Cross-References

Genesis 9:21
and dank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself in the midst of his tent.

Genesis 9:22
And Ham the father of Canaan saw his father's shame, - and told his two brethren outside.

Genesis 9:23
And Shem and Japheth took a mantle, and put it on the shoulder of them both and went backwards, and covered the shame of their father, but their faces were backwards, and the shame of their father, saw they not.

Isaiah 54:9
For, the waters of Noah, is this unto me, - As to which I sware that the waters of Noah should not again pass over the earth, So have I sworn Not to be vexed with thee Nor to rebuke thee.

2 Peter 3:7
While, the heavens and the earth that now are, by the same word, have been stored with fire, being kept unto the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly men.

2 Peter 3:11
Seeing that all these things are thus to be dissolved, what manner of persons, ought yeall the while to be, in holy ways of behaviour and acts of godliness, -

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[As for] Ephraim, their glory shall flee away like a bird,.... That is, suddenly, swiftly, and irrecoverably, and never return more; which some understand of God their glory, and of his departure from them, as in Hosea 9:12; others of their wealth and riches, and whatever was glorious and valuable among them, which should fly away from them in a moment, when taken and carried captive; rather their numerous posterity, in which they were very fruitful, according to their name, and in which they gloried, as children are the glory of their parents, Proverbs 17:6; which sense agrees with what follows, and which explains the manner of their fleeing away, and the periods of it:

from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception; that is, some of them, as soon as they were born; others while in the womb, being abortives; or, however, when they should, or as soon as they did, come from thence; and others, as soon as conceived, never come to any thing; or not conceived at all, as Kimchi interprets it, the women being barren.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away, like a bird - Ephraim had parted with God, his true Glory. In turn, God would quickly take from him all created glory, all which he counted glory, or in which he gloried. When man parts with the substance, his true honor, God takes away the shadow, lest he should content himself therewith, and not see his shame, and, boasting himself to be something, abide in his nothingness and poverty and shame to which he had reduced himself. “Fruitfulness,” and consequent strength, had been God’s special promise to Ephraim. His name, Ephraim, contained in itself the promise of his future fruitfulness. Genesis 41:52. With this Jacob had blessed him. He was to be greater than Manasseh, his older brother, “and his seed shall become a multitude of nations” Genesis 48:19. Moses had assigned to him “tens of thousands” Deuteronomy 33:17, while to Manasseh he had promised “thousands” only. On this blessing Ephraim had presumed, and had made it to feed his pride; so now God, in his justice and mercy, would withdraw it from him. It should “make” itself “wings, and fly away” Proverbs 23:5, with the swiftness of a bird, and “like a bird,” not to return again to the place, from where it has been scared.

From the birth - Their children were to perish at every stage in which they received life. This sentence pursued them back to the very beginning of life. First, when their parents should have joy in “their birth,” they were to come into the world only to go out of it; then, their mothers womb was to be itself their grave; then, stricken with barrenness, the womb itself was to refuse to conceive them.

: “The glory of Ephraim passes away, from the birth, the womb, the conception, when the mind which before was, for glory, half-deified, receives, through the just judgment of God, ill report for good report, misery for glory, hatred for favor, contempt for reverence, loss for gain, famine for abundance. Act is the “birth;” intention the “womb;” thought the “conception.” “The glory of Ephraim then flies away from the birth, the womb, the conception,” when, in those who before did outwardly live nobly, and gloried in themselves for the outward propriety of their life, the acts are disgraced, the intention corrupted, the thoughts defiled.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 9:11. Their glory shall fly away — It shall suddenly spring away from them, and return no more.

From the birth — "So that there shall be no birth, no carrying in the womb, no conception."-Newcome. They shall cease to glory in their numbers; for no children shall be born, no woman shall be pregnant, for none shall conceive. Here judgment blasts the very germs of population.