World English Bible
Hosea 9:12
“Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!”
Verse in context — Hosea 9
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, none with child, and no conception.
Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.
Give them--Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
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God’s steadfast love for His unfaithful people, symbolized through Hosea’s marriage.
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