Hosea 9:11

The Fertility Worshipers Will Become Infertile

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 

Job 18:16

18:16 Below his roots dry up,

and his branches wither above.

Psalms 109:13

109:13 May his descendants ³  be cut off! ⁴ 

May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives! ⁵ 

Isaiah 14:21

14:21 Prepare to execute ⁶  his sons

for the sins their ancestors have committed. ⁷ 

They must not rise up and take possession of the earth,

or fill the surface of the world with cities.” ⁸ 

[9:11]  ¹ tn Heb “their glory” (so NASB); TEV “Israel’s greateness.”

[9:11]  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).

[109:13]  ³ tn Or “offspring.”

[109:13]  ⁴ sn On the expression cut off see Ps 37:28.

[109:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “in another generation may their name be wiped out.”

[14:21]  ⁶ tn Or “the place of slaughter for.”

[14:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “for the sin of their fathers.”

[14:21]  ⁸ sn J. N. Oswalt (Isaiah [NICOT], 1:320, n. 10) suggests that the garrison cities of the mighty empire are in view here.