11 Ephraim their glory shall flee away like a bird: from the birth [a]and from the womb, and from the conception.

12 Though they bring up their children, yet I will deprive them from being men: yea, woe to them, when I depart from them.

13 Ephraim, as I saw, is as a tree [b]in Tyre planted in a cottage: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:11 Signifying, that God would destroy their children by these sundry means, and so consume them by little and little.
  2. Hosea 9:13 As they kept tender plants in their houses in Tyre to preserve them from the cold air of the sea, so was Ephraim at the first unto me, but now I will give him to the slaughter.

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