Hosea 9:14
Give them, O LORD--what will thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
In Context
Cross References
Job 21:10Their bull breeds, and does not fail. Their cow brings forth safely, and does not miscarry.
Hosea 9:13Ephraim, just as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place, but Ephraim shall bring out his sons to the slayer.
Matthew 24:19And woe to those who have in the womb and to those who suckle in those days.
Luke 21:23But woe to those who have in the womb, and to those who suckle in those days. For there will be great distress upon the land, and wrath to this people.
1 Corinthians 7:26I suppose therefore this to be good because of the present distress, that it is good for a man to be this way:
Matthew Henry on Hosea 9:12-17
Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 740.) 11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. 12 Though 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! 13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. 14 Give them, O Lord : what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 15… Read the whole commentary →