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What does Hosea 9:16 mean?
"Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”"
— Hosea 9:16 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
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.
“All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.
Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”
My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.
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