Hosea 9:14

Give them, Lord – what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and shrivelled up 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 – planted like Tyre in a meadow, But Ephraim too must lead forth their children to slaughter.

15All their evil began in Gilgal, there I learned to hate them. Because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will no longer love them, for all their princes are rebels.

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Cross References

Hosea 9:13Ephraim – planted like Tyre in a meadow, But Ephraim too must lead forth their children to slaughter.

Matthew 24:19Alas for pregnant women, and for those who are nursing infants in those days!

Luke 21:23Alas for pregnant women, and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great suffering in the land, and anger against this people.

1 Corinthians 7:26I think, then, that, in view of the time of suffering that has now come upon us, what I have already said is best – that a man should remain 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 →

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