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What does Hosea 9:11 mean?
"As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception."
— Hosea 9:11 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.
They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.
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!
I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.
Give them—Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
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Biblical perspective
What does 9:11 mean in the Bible?
Searching for the meaning behind this number? Amos 9:11 is a genuine prophecy about restoration — God promising to rebuild what has been broken.
Several books of the Bible have a chapter 9, verse 11. Amos 9:11 stands out as a restoration promise that the New Testament connects to the inclusion of all nations.
Amos 9:11
"In that day I will raise up the tent of David who has fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old."
Romans 9:11
"For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls..."
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