Hosea 9:14
Give them, O Jehovah—what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
ASV Byzantine Text
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 gendereth, and faileth not; Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
Hosea 9:13Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring out his children to the slayer.
Matthew 24:19But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!
Luke 21:23But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days! for there shall be great distress upon the land, and wrath upon this people.
1 Corinthians 7:26I think therefore that this is good by reason of the distress that is upon us, namely, that it is good for a man to be as he is.
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 →