Hosea 9:11

Wycliffe Bible

Effraym as a brid fley awei; the glorye of hem is of childberyng, and of the wombe, and of conseyuyng.

Parallel Translations

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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 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!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
As for Ephraim! like a bird, did their glory, fly away, - no birth, and none with child, no 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!

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.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Effraym as a brid fley awei; the glorye of hem is of childberyng, and of the wombe, and of conseyuyng. ¹² That if thei nurschen her sones, Y schal make hem with out children among men. But also wo to hem, whanne Y schal go awei fro hem. ¹³ Y siy that Effraym was as Tire, foundid in fairnesse; and Effraym schal lede out hise sones to the sleere. ¹⁴ Lord, yyue thou to hem; what schalt thou yyue to hem? yyue thou to hem a wombe with out children, and drie tetis. ¹⁵ Alle the wickidnessis of hem ben in Galgal, for there Y hadde hem hateful; for the malice of her fyndyngis. Y schal caste hem out of myn hous; Y schal not leie to, that Y loue hem. Alle the princes of hem goen awei. ¹⁶ Effraym is smyten, the roote of hem is dried vp; thei schulen not make fruyt. That thouy thei gendren, Y schal sle the moost louyd thingis of her wombe. ¹⁷ My God schal caste hem awey, for thei herden not hym; and thei schulen be of vnstable dwellyng among naciouns.

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 he drank wyn, and was drunkun; and he was nakid, and lay in his tabernacle.

Genesis 9:22
And whanne Cham, the fadir of Chanaan, hadde seien this thing, that is, that the schameful membris of his fadir weren maad nakid, he telde to hise tweye britheren with out forth.

Genesis 9:23
And sotheli Sem and Jafeth puttiden a mentil on her schuldris, and thei yeden bacward, and hileden the schameful membris of her fadir, and her faces weren turned awei, and thei sien not the priuy membris of her fadir.

Isaiah 54:9
As in the daies of Noe, this thing is to me, to whom Y swoor, that Y schulde no more bringe watris of the greet flood on the erthe; so Y swoor, that Y be no more wrooth to thee, and that Y blame not thee.

2 Peter 3:7
But the heuenes that now ben, and the erthe, ben kept bi the same word, and ben reseruyd to fier in to the dai of doom and perdicioun of wickid men.

2 Peter 3:11
Therfor whanne alle these thingis schulen be dissolued, what manner men bihoueth it you to be in hooli lyuyngis and pitees,

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.