Hosea 9:11-16

The Lord Will Punish Israel

11 Ephraim's c glory shall fly away like a bird -
d no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
12 e Even if they bring up children,
I will bereave them till none is left.
f Woe to them
when g I depart from them!
13 Ephraim, h as I have seen, was like a young palm 1 planted in a meadow;
but e Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter. 2
14 Give them, O Lord -
what will you give?
Give them i a miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.

15 Every evil of theirs is in j Gilgal;
there I began to hate them.
Because of the wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of my house.
I will love them no more;
all k their princes are l rebels.

16 Ephraim is stricken;
m their root is dried up;
they shall bear no fruit.
Even n though they give birth,
e I will put their beloved children to death.

  1. Cross References
    Hosea 10:5
    The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests - those who rejoiced over it and over its glory - for it has departed from them.
    Hosea 4:7
    The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame.
  2. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:18
    We were pregnant, we writhed, but we have given birth to wind. We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth, and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.
  3. Cross References
    Hosea 13:16
    Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
  4. Cross References
    Hosea 7:13
    Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.
  5. Cross References
    Hosea 5:6
    With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the Lord, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.
    1 Samuel 28:15 - 16
    Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" Saul answered, "I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do.
    Ezekiel 10:18
    Then the glory of the Lord went out from the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.
  6. Cross References
    Ezekiel 27:3
    And say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrances to the sea, merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, thus says the Lord God : "O Tyre, you have said, 'I am perfect in beauty.
  7. Cross References
    Hosea 9:12
    Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them!
  8. Cross References
    Luke 23:29
    For behold, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!
  9. Cross References
    Hosea 4:15
    Though you play the whore, O Israel, let not Judah become guilty. Enter not into Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-aven, and swear not, "As the Lord lives.
    Hosea 12:11
    If there is iniquity in Gilead, they shall surely come to nothing: in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls; their altars also are like stone heaps on the furrows of the field.
  10. Cross References
    Hosea 8:4
    They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but I knew it not. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction.
  11. Cross References
    Hosea 5:2
    And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter, but I will discipline all of them.
  12. Cross References
    Hosea 9:11
    Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird - no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
  13. Cross References
    Hosea 9:12 - 13
    Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them!
  14. Cross References
    Hosea 9:12
    Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them!
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