Book of Hosea Chapter 9 Vs. 11

 The Lord Will Punish Israel

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. Hos. 9:11

As for Ephraim, ... These verses picture the complete destruction of Ephraim and their dispersion among the nations (Hos. 9:11-17).

their glory shall... Ephraim had parted with God, his true Glory. In turn, God would quickly take from him all created glory, all which he counted glory, or in which he gloried. When man parts with the substance, his true honor, God takes away the shadow, lest he should content himself therewith, and not see his shame. And, boasting himself to be something, abide in his nothingness and poverty and shame to which he had reduced himself.

Fruitfulness, and consequent strength, had been God's special promise to Ephraim. His name, Ephraim, contained in itself the promise of his future fruitfulness (Gen. 41:52). With this Jacob had blessed him. He was to be greater than Manasseh, his older brother, "and his seed shall become a multitude of nations" (Gen. 48:19).

from the birth... Their children were to perish at every stage in which they received life. This sentence pursued them back to the very beginning of life. First, when their parents should have joy in their birth, they were to come into the world only to go out of it. Then, their mother’s womb was to be itself their grave; then, stricken with barrenness, the womb itself was to refuse to conceive them.

That is, some of them, as soon as they were born. While others in the womb, being aborted. Or, however, when they should, or as soon as they did, come from thence. And others, as soon as conceived, never come to anything; or not conceived at all, as Kimchi interprets it, the women being barren.

God has given them many reasons why they should have this terrible thing happen to them. Ephraim had received the right-hand blessing from God, and yet, they turned from God into terrible sin. They have grown into something horrible in the sight of God.

Ephraim the Fruitful name is emphasized their glory is flown away like a bird.

The name Ephraim is used in Hos. 9:11, 9:13, and Hos. 9:16 because it was associated with fertility and fruitfulness Ephraim in Heb. sounds like twice fruitful; cf. Gen. 41:52).

Ephraim’s glory, here associated with numerous offspring, would depart as swiftly as a bird.