12And though they should bring up their children, I will make them without children among men: yea, and woe to them, when I shall depart from them.


In Context

9 They have sinned deeply, as in the days of Gabaa: he will remember their iniquity, and will visit their sin.

10 I found Israel like grapes in the desert, I saw their fathers like the firstfruits of the fig tree in the top thereof: but they went in to Beelphegor, and alienated themselves to that confusion, and became abominable, as those things were, which they loved.

11 As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like a bird from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

12 And though they should bring up their children, I will make them without children among men: yea, and woe to them, when I shall depart from them.

13 Ephraim, as I saw, was a Tyre founded in beauty: and Ephraim shall bring out his children to the murderer.

14 Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give them? Give them a womb without children, and dry breasts.

Hosea 9:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, [that there shall] not [be] a man [left:] yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:12Even if they rear children, I will bereave them of every one. Woe to them when I turn away from them!

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, so that not a man shall be left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:12For even should they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that not a man remain: for woe also to them when I shall have departed from them!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there be not a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yes, woe also to them when I depart from them!

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:12Though 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!

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:12For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless — without man, Surely also, woe to them, when I turn aside from them.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yes, woe also to them when I depart from them!