Hosea 9:14

Give them—well, Lord, what should you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry and dry breasts.

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In The King James Version

Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

In Context

13Ephraim! Just as I saw Tyre planted in a meadow, so too Ephraim will lead out his children to the murderer.

15All of their evil began at Gilgal, and that's where I began to hate them. I will drive them out of my house because of their wickedness. I will love them no longer; all their leaders are rebels.

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Cross References

Job 21:10Their bulls always breed successfully; their cows give birth to calves and do not miscarry.

Hosea 9:13Ephraim! Just as I saw Tyre planted in a meadow, so too Ephraim will lead out his children to the murderer.

Matthew 24:19How awful it will be for those who are pregnant, and those who are nursing babies at that time!

Luke 21:23How hard it will be for those who are pregnant or nursing babies at that time! For terrible trouble is coming on the land and punishment against this people.

1 Corinthians 7:26Because of the present difficult situation we are in I think it is best to just stay as you are.

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 →

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