Hosea 9:11
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11 Ephraim’s glory shall fly away like a bird—
no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!(A)
Hosea 10:5
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5 The inhabitants of Samaria tremble
for the calf[a] of Beth-aven.
Its people shall mourn for it,
and its idolatrous priests shall wail[b] over it,
over its glory that has departed from it.(A)
Hosea 9:14
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14 Give them, O Lord—
what will you give?
Give them a miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.
Hosea 4:7
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7 The more they increased,
the more they sinned against me;
they changed[a] their glory into shame.(A)
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- 4.7 Tg Syr: MT I will change
Deuteronomy 28:18
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18 “Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock.
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Luke 23:29
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29 For the days are surely coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’
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Amos 1:13
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13 Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of the Ammonites,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead
in order to enlarge their territory.(A)
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- 1.13 Heb cause it to return
Ecclesiastes 6:3
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3 A man may father a hundred children and live many years, but however many are the days of his years, if he does not enjoy life’s good things or has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.(A)
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Psalm 58:8
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8 Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime,
like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.(A)
Job 18:18-19
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18 They are thrust from light into darkness
and driven out of the world.
19 They have no offspring or descendant among their people
and no survivor where they used to live.(A)
Job 18:5
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5 “Surely the light of the wicked is put out,
and the flame of their fire does not shine.(A)
Deuteronomy 33:17
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17 A firstborn[a] bull—majesty is his!
His horns are the horns of a wild ox;
with them he gores the peoples
all together to the ends of the earth;
such are the myriads of Ephraim,
such the thousands of Manasseh.”(A)
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- 33.17 Q ms Gk Syr Vg: MT His firstborn
Deuteronomy 28:57
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57 begrudging even the afterbirth that comes out from between her thighs and the children that she bears, because she is eating them in secret for lack of anything else, in the desperate straits to which the enemy siege will reduce you in your towns.
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Genesis 49:22
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22 Joseph is a fruitful bough,[a]
a fruitful bough by a spring;
his branches run over the wall.[b](A)
Genesis 48:16-20
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16 the angel who has redeemed me from all harm, bless the boys,
and in them let my name be perpetuated and the name of my ancestors Abraham and Isaac,
and let them grow into a multitude on the earth.”(A)
17 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, so he took his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.(B) 18 Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father! Since this one is the firstborn, put your right hand on his head.” 19 But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”(C) 20 So he blessed them that day, saying,
“By you Israel will invoke blessings, saying,
‘God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh.’ ”
So he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh.
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Genesis 41:52
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52 The second he named Ephraim,[a] “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my misfortunes.”(A)
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- 41.52 In Heb Ephraim is related to the word for fruitful
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