9:11 Ephraim will be like a bird;
what they value 1 will fly away.
They will not bear children –
they will not enjoy pregnancy –
they will not even conceive! 2
9:12 Even if they raise their children,
I will take away every last one of them. 3
Woe to them!
For I will turn away from them.
1 tn Heb “their glory” (so NASB); TEV “Israel’s greateness.”
2 tn Heb “no childbearing, no pregnancy, no conception.” The preposition מִן (min) prefixed to the three parallel nouns functions in a privative sense, indicating deprivation (BDB 583 s.v. מִן 7).
3 tn Heb “I will bereave them from a man”; NRSV “I will bereave them until no one is left.”