King James Version (KJV)
Hosea 9:16
“Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay [even] the beloved [fruit] of their womb.”
Verse in context — Hosea 9
14
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
15
All their wickedness [is] in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes [are] revolters.
16
Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay [even] the beloved [fruit] of their womb.
17
My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
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God’s steadfast love for His unfaithful people, symbolized through Hosea’s marriage.
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