Hosea 9:14
Give to them, YHWH—what do You give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.
Literal Standard Version
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 21:10His bullock breeds without fail. His cow brings forth safely, and does not miscarry.
Hosea 9:13Ephraim! When I have looked to the rock, || Is planted in comeliness, || And Ephraim [is] to bring out his sons to a slayer.
Matthew 24:19And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck in those days;
Luke 21:23And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there will be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;
1 Corinthians 7:26I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that [it is] good for a man that the matter be thus:
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 →