Hosea 9:12
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.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Numbers 14:34According to the number of the forty days, wherein you viewed the land: year shall be counted for a day. And forty years you shall receive your iniquities, and shall know my revenge:
Deuteronomy 28:18Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, the herds of thy oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep.
Deuteronomy 28:41Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and shalt not enjoy them: because they shall be led into captivity.
Deuteronomy 32:25Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.
1 Samuel 16:14But the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.
2 Kings 17:18And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from his sight, and there remained only the tribe of Juda.
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 →