“As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.”
The promise that Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird and there shall be no birth, no pregnancy, no conception suggests the loss of Israel's capacity to perpetuate itself, that the nation will become sterile and unable to produce a future generation. The sterility stands in ironic contrast to the fertility that Israel pursued through Baal worship, suggesting that the pursuit of fertility through false gods results in actual barrenness. This verse indicates that judgment affects Israel's fundamental capacity to survive and reproduce.
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