Hosea 9:13
Ephraim, even as I saw, gave their children for a prey; yea, Ephraim was ready to bring out his children to slaughter.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
14Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give them? a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.
Cross References
Job 27:14And if their children be many, they shall be for slaughter: 1 And if they grow up, they shall beg. 1
Lamentations 2:22He has called my sojourners round about 1 To a solemn day, 1 And there was not in the day of the wrath of the Lord 1 Anyone that escaped or was left; 1 Whereas I have strengthened and multiplied all mine enemies.
Ezekiel 27:3and thou shalt say to Tyre that dwells at the entrance of the sea, to the mart of the nations coming from many islands, Thus saith the Lord to Tyre; Thou hast said, I have clothed myself with my beauty.
Hosea 10:14Therefore shall destruction rise up among thy people, and all thy strong places shall be ruined: as prince Solomon departed out of the house of Jeroboam, in the days of battle they dashed the mother to the ground upon the children,
Amos 7:17Therefore thus saith the Lord; Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be measured with the line; and thou shalt die in an unclean land; and Israel shall be led captive out of his land. Thus has the Lord God shown me.
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 →