Hosea 9:14
Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give them? Give them a womb without children, and dry breasts.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.
Hosea 9:13Ephraim, as I saw, was a Tyre founded in beauty: and Ephraim shall bring out his children to the murderer.
Matthew 24:19And woe to them that are with child, and that give suck in those days.
Luke 21:23But woe to them that are with child, and give suck in those days; for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
1 Corinthians 7:26I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity, that it is good for a man so to be.
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 →