Hosea 9:11

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. AS FOR EPHRAIM, THEE GLORY SHALL FLY AWAY. Fit retribubution to these who "separated themselves unto that shame" (). Children were accounted the glory of parents; sterility a reproach. "Ephraim" means fruitfulness (, margin); this its name shall cease to be its characteristic. FROM THE BIRTH, AND FROM THE WOMB, AND FROM THE CONCEPTION. Ephraim's children shall perish in a threefold gradation- (1) From the birth; (2) From the time of pregnancy; (3) From the time of their first conception. Compare the threefold stages of failure in their produce of the earth -- (1) "It hath no stalk; (2) The bu...

The Hebrews, we know, have often abrupt sentences as in this place, _Ephraim! their glory has fled _Ephraim is to be placed by itself; and the speech seems striking, when the Lord thus breaks off the sentence, Ephraim! he does not continue the sense, but immediately adds, _Like a bird their glory has fled. _When he speaks of Ephraim, he no doubt refers especially to his offspring; and by mentioning a part for the whole, he includes whatever was then deemed to be wealth, or glory, or power. The Prophet, I say, speaks of offspring, for he immediately adds, _from the birth, and the womb, and the conception _But they are mistaken who confine this sentence to offspring only; for it is, as I have said, a mode of speaking, by which a part is taken for the whole. According to the letter, he mentions children or offspring; but yet he includes generally the whole condition of the people. Then _as...

11-17. God departs from a people, or from a person, when he withdraws his goodness and mercy from them; and when the Lord is departed, what can the creature do? Even though, for the present, good things seem to remain, yet the blessing is gone if God is gone. Even the children should perish with the parents. The Divine wrath dries up the root, and withers the fruit of all comforts; and the scattered Jews daily warn us to beware, lest we neglect or abuse the gospel. Yet every smiting is not a drying up of the root. It may be that God intends only to smite so that the sap may be turned to the root, that there may be more of root graces, more humility, patience, faith, and self-denial. It is very just that God should bring judgments on those who slight his offered mercy....

Verse Hosea 9:11. _THEIR GLORY SHALL FLY AWAY_] It shall suddenly spring away from them, and return no more. _FROM THE BIRTH_] "So that there shall be no birth, no carrying in the womb, no conception."-_Newcome_. They shall cease to glory in their _numbers_; for no _children_ shall be _born_, no woman shall be _pregnant_, for none shall _conceive_. Here judgment blasts the very _germs_ of population....

AS FOR EPHRAIM, THEIR GLORY SHALL FLY AWAY, LIKE A BIRD - Ephraim had parted with God, his true Glory. In turn, God would quickly take from him all created glory, all which he counted glory, or in which he gloried. When man parts with the substance, his true honor, God takes away the shadow, lest he should content himself therewith, and not see his shame, and, boasting himself to be something, abide in his nothingness and poverty and shame to which he had reduced himself. “Fruitfulness,” and consequent strength, had been God’s special promise to Ephraim. His name, Ephraim, contained in itself the promise of his future fruitfulness. Genesis 41:52. With this Jacob had blessed him. He was to be greater than Manasseh, his older brother, “and his seed shall become a multitude of nations”...

EXPOSITION HOSEA 9:1 Contain a warning against security arising from temporary prosperity. HOSEA 9:1 REJOICE NOT, O ISRAEL, FOR JOY, AS OTHER PEOPLE. The occasion on which the prophet penned this section was so no idolatrous merry-making in connection with harvest, and not any change of political situation. (1) The literal rendering of the first clause is, _rejoice not unto exultation_,_ _or _exceedingly_,_ as _the same expression is translated in Job 3:22; it is thus climactic. (2) The old versions take _el-gil_ as imperative, and read אַל; μηδὲ εὐφραίνον, equivalent to "nor ma

[AS FOR] EPHRAIM, THEIR GLORY SHALL FLEE AWAY LIKE A BIRD,.... That is, suddenly, swiftly, and irrecoverably, and never return more; which some understand of God their glory, and of his departure from them, as in Hosea 9:12; others of their wealth and riches, and whatever was glorious and valuable among them, which should fly away from them in a moment, when taken and carried captive; rather their numerous posterity, in which they were very fruitful, according to their name, and in which they gloried, as children are the glory of their parents, Proverbs 17:6; which sense agrees with what follows, and which explains the manner of their fleeing away, and the periods of it: FROM THE BIRTH, AND FROM THE WOMB, AND FROM THE CONCEPTION; that is, some of them, as soon as they were born; others while

CHAPTER 9:10-11:11 RETROSPECT, ISRAEL'S FAILURE AND RUIN _ 1. Israel once beloved, now fugitive wanderers (Hosea 9:10) _ 2. Their guilt and punishment (Hosea 10:1) 3. Exhortation and rebuke (Hosea 10:12) 4. The mercy of a merciful God (Hosea 11:1) Hosea 9:10. Like a wayfaring man who finds grapes and figs in the desert and delights in them, so the Lord found Israel in the desert and they were His pleasure when He led them out of Egypt. But they requited His love by going after Baal-peor, one of the filthiest gods of heat

THE NEMESIS OF AN IMPURE WORSHIP (_cf. Hosea 4:11_). Israel in unspoilt youth had appeared to Yahweh like grapes in the wilderness, but at the very first of the Canaanite shrines which they reached, Baal-Peor, they polluted themselves (Hosea 9:10). The consequent nemesis was barrenness [12] (Hosea 9:11).their root is dried up (Hosea 9:16) should be inserted (Wellhausen) between Hosea 9:11 and Hosea 9:12. If children are brought up to die prematurely ...

FROM THE BIRTH, &C.. no birth, none with child, no conception. CONCEPTION. This particular word _herayon_ occurs only here, and Ruth 4:13. A similar word (Hebrew. _haron)_ in Genesis 3:16....