Hosea 9:12
Even if they bring up children, I will make sure they do not survive. What a disaster for you when I turn away from you!
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Numbers 14:34Just as you explored the country for forty days, so shall your punishment for your sins be forty years, a year for every day, and you will see what happens when I oppose you.
Deuteronomy 28:18You will be cursed by not having children, and by not having good harvests, and by your cattle not having calves, and your sheep not having lambs.
Deuteronomy 28:41You will have sons and daughters, but you won't have them for long, because they will be taken off into captivity as slaves.
Deuteronomy 32:25Outside in the streets the sword kills their children, inside their homes, they die from fright; young men and young women, children and old people.
1 Samuel 16:14The Spirit of the Lord had left Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented him.
2 Kings 17:18So the Lord was extremely angry with Israel, and he banished them from his presence. Only the tribe of Judah was left,
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 →