Hosea 9:11
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11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!
Hosea 10:5
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5 The inhabitants of Samaria fear
Because of the (A)calf[a] of Beth Aven.
For its people mourn for it,
And [b]its priests shriek for it—
Because its (B)glory has departed from it.
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- Hosea 10:5 Lit. calves, images
- Hosea 10:5 idolatrous priests
Hosea 9:14
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14 Give them, O Lord—
What will You give?
Give them (A)a miscarrying womb
And dry breasts!
Hosea 4:7
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7 “The more they increased,
The more they sinned against Me;
(A)I[a] will change [b]their glory into shame.
Deuteronomy 28:18
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18 “Cursed shall be the [a]fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.
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- Deuteronomy 28:18 offspring
Luke 23:29
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29 (A)For indeed the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, wombs that never bore, and breasts which never nursed!’
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Amos 1:13
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13 Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of (A)the people of Ammon, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because they ripped open the women with child in Gilead,
That they might enlarge their territory.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
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3 If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or (A)indeed he has no burial, I say that (B)a [a]stillborn child is better than he—
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- Ecclesiastes 6:3 Or miscarriage
Psalm 58:8
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8 Let them be like a snail which melts away as it goes,
(A)Like a stillborn child of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
Job 18:18-19
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18 [a]He is driven from light into darkness,
And chased out of the world.
19 (A)He has neither son nor posterity among his people,
Nor any remaining in his dwellings.
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- Job 18:18 Or They drive him
Job 18:5
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5 “The(A) light of the wicked indeed goes out,
And the flame of his fire does not shine.
Deuteronomy 33:17
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17 His glory is like a (A)firstborn bull,
And his horns like the (B)horns of the wild ox;
Together with them
(C)He shall push the peoples
To the ends of the earth;
(D)They are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
And they are the thousands of Manasseh.”
Deuteronomy 28:57
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57 her [a]placenta which comes out (A)from between her feet and her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of everything in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates.
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- Deuteronomy 28:57 afterbirth
Genesis 49:22
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22 “Joseph is a fruitful bough,
A fruitful bough by a well;
His branches run over the wall.
Genesis 48:16-20
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16 The Angel (A)who has redeemed me from all evil,
Bless the lads;
Let (B)my name be named upon them,
And the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
And let them (C)grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”
17 Now when Joseph saw that his father (D)laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him; so he took hold of his father’s hand to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head. 18 And Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”
19 But his father refused and said, (E)“I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly (F)his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.”
20 So he blessed them that day, saying, (G)“By you Israel will bless, saying, ‘May God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh!’ ” And thus he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
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Genesis 41:52
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52 And the name of the second he called [a]Ephraim: “For God has caused me to be (A)fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
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- Genesis 41:52 Lit. Fruitfulness
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