Ephraim's Future Is Bleak (Hosea 9:11-17).
As a result of their sinfulness Ephraim's future is depicted as being very bleak. Their wealth and prosperity (their ‘glory' - compare Isaiah 17:3) will fly away, the wombs of their wives will be barren and their children will be brought out to the slayers. And this was because YHWH has determined to drive them out of His House and love them no more, because of the wickedness of their ways. The result will be that they will become wanderers among the nations.
Analysis of Hosea 9:11-17.
a As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird (Hosea 9:11 a).
b There will be no birth, and none with child, and no conception. Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, so that not a man will be left. Yes, woe also to them when I depart from them! (Hosea 9:11-12).
c Ephraim, in the same way as I saw Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place. But Ephraim will bring out his children to the slayer (Hosea 9:13).
d Give them, O YHWH - What will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts (Hosea 9:14).
c All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more, all their princes are rebels (Hosea 9:15).
b Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they will bear no fruit. Yes, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb (Hosea 9:16).
a My God will cast them away, because they did not listen responsively to him, and they will be wanderers among the nations (Hosea 9:17).
Note that in ‘a' their glory will fly away like a bird, and in the parallel they will be cast away and will wander among the nations. In ‘b' their womenfolk will be barren, (note the threefold, ‘no birth, none with child, no conception') and their growing children will die at YHWH's hand and in the parallel ‘they are smitten, their root is dried up, they will bear no fruit', and when they do bring forth the children will die at YHWH's hand. In ‘c' although Ephraim were planted in a pleasant place like Tyre, yet their children would be brought out to the slayer, and in the parallel they would be driven out of the place of wickednesses, Gilgal and driven out of His house (Israel) and would be loved no more. Centrally in ‘d' the prophet, in accordance with ‘b' calls for them to be given what YHWH sees as their due, a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.