Verse 11

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

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 28:18 : 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flock.
  • Hos 4:7 : 7 As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame.
  • Hos 9:14 : 14 Give them, O Jehovah--what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
  • Hos 10:5 : 5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in terror for the calves of Beth-aven; for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced over it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
  • Amos 1:13 : 13 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.
  • Luke 23:29 : 29 For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.
  • Deut 28:57 : 57 and toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
  • Deut 33:17 : 17 The firstling of his herd, majesty is his; And his horns are the horns of the wild-ox: With them he shall push the peoples all of them, [even] the ends of the earth: And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.
  • Job 18:5 : 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.
  • Job 18:18-19 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world. 19 He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.
  • Ps 58:8 : 8 [ Let them be] as a snail which melteth and passeth away, [Like] the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.
  • Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
  • Gen 41:52 : 52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.
  • Gen 48:16-20 : 16 the angel who hath redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. 17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head. 18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father; for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head. 19 And his father refused, and said, I know [it], my son, I know [it] ; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: howbeit his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. 20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee will Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
  • Gen 49:22 : 22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a fountain; His branches run over the wall.