11 Ephraim's (A)glory shall fly away like a bird—
    (B)no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!

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The inhabitants of Samaria tremble
    for (A)the calf[a] of (B)Beth-aven.
Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests—
    those who rejoiced over it and (C)over its glory—
    for it has departed[b] from them.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:5 Or calves
  2. Hosea 10:5 Or has gone into exile

14 Give them, O Lord
    what will you give?
Give them (A)a miscarrying womb
    and dry breasts.

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(A)The more they increased,
    the more they sinned against me;
    (B)I will change their glory into shame.

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18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.

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29 For behold, (A)the days are coming when they will say, (B)‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’

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13 Thus says the Lord:

(A)“For three transgressions of the (B)Ammonites,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because (C)they have ripped open pregnant women in (D)Gilead,
    that they might enlarge their border.

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If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that (A)the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's (B)good things, and he also has no (C)burial, I say that (D)a stillborn child is better off than he.

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Let them be like the snail (A)that dissolves into slime,
    like (B)the stillborn child who never sees the sun.

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18 (A)He is thrust from light into darkness,
    and driven out of the world.
19 He has no (B)posterity or progeny among his people,
    and no survivor where he used to live.

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“Indeed, (A)the light of the wicked is put out,
    and the flame of his fire does not shine.

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17 (A)A firstborn bull[a]—he has majesty,
    and his horns are the horns of a (B)wild ox;
with them (C)he shall gore the peoples,
    all of them, to the ends of the earth;
(D)they are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
    and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 33:17 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Samaritan; Masoretic Text His firstborn bull

57 her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, (A)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.

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22 “Joseph is (A)a fruitful bough,
    a fruitful bough by a spring;
    his branches run over the wall.[a]

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  1. Genesis 49:22 Or Joseph is a wild donkey, a wild donkey beside a spring, his wild colts beside the wall

16 (A)the angel who has (B)redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys;
    and in them let (C)my name be carried on, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
    and let them (D)grow into a multitude[a] in the midst of the earth.”

17 When Joseph saw that his father (E)laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. 18 And Joseph said to his father, “Not this way, my father; since this one is the firstborn, put your right hand on his head.” 19 But his father refused and said, (F)“I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, (G)his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude[b] of nations.” 20 So he blessed them that day, saying,

“By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying,
(H)‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh.’”

Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

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  1. Genesis 48:16 Or let them be like fish for multitude
  2. Genesis 48:19 Hebrew fullness

52 The name of the second he called Ephraim, “For God has (A)made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 41:52 Ephraim sounds like the Hebrew for making fruitful

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