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Hosea 4:7
The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against me. I will change their honor into disgrace.
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Hosea 10:5
The residents of Samaria will have anxiety over the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its idolatrous priests rejoiced over it; the people will mourn over it, over its glory. It will certainly go into exile.
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Deuteronomy 28:18
Your offspring will be cursed, and your land’s produce, the young of your herds, and the newborn of your flocks.
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Hosea 9:14
Give them, LORD— What should you give? Give them a womb that miscarries and breasts that are dry!
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Ecclesiastes 6:3
A man may father a hundred children and live many years. No matter how long he lives, if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
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Luke 23:29
Look, the days are coming when they will say,‘ Blessed are the women without children, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed!’
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Genesis 41:52
And the second son he named Ephraim and said,“ God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
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Psalms 58:8
Like a slug that moves along in slime, like a woman’s miscarried child, may they not see the sun.
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Amos 1:13
The LORD says: I will not relent from punishing the Ammonites for three crimes, even four, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.
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Genesis 48:16-20
the angel who has redeemed me from all harm— may he bless these boys. And may they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow to be numerous within the land.When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head, he thought it was a mistake and took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s.Joseph said to his father,“ Not that way, my father! This one is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”But his father refused and said,“ I know, my son, I know! He too will become a tribe, and he too will be great; nevertheless, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a populous nation.”So he blessed them that day, putting Ephraim before Manasseh when he said,“ The nation Israel will invoke blessings by you, saying,‘ May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’”
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Deuteronomy 33:17
His firstborn bull has splendor, and horns like those of a wild ox; he gores all the peoples with them to the ends of the earth. Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of Manasseh.
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Job 18:18-19
He is driven from light to darkness and chased from the inhabited world.He has no children or descendants among his people, no survivor where he used to live.
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Genesis 49:22
Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine beside a spring; its branches climb over the wall.
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Deuteronomy 28:57
the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you within your city gates.
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Job 18:5
Yes, the light of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.