Hosea 9:14

Give them, Yahweh—what will you give them? 1 Give them a miscarrying womb and breasts that give no milk. 1

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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

13I have seen Ephraim, just like Tyre, planted in a meadow, 1 but Ephraim will bring out his children to someone who will slaughter them.” 1

15“Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal, 1 that is where I began to hate them. 1 Because of their sinful deeds, 1 I will drive them out of my house. 1 I will love them no more; 1 all their officials are rebels. 1

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Cross References

Job 21:10Their bull breeds; it does not fail to do so; 1 their cow gives birth and does not lose her calf prematurely. 1

Hosea 9:13I have seen Ephraim, just like Tyre, planted in a meadow, 1 but Ephraim will bring out his children to someone who will slaughter them.” 1

Matthew 24:19But woe to those who are with child and to those who are nursing infants in those days!

Luke 21:23Woe to them who are pregnant and to them who are nursing in those days! For there will be great distress upon the land, and wrath to this people.

1 Corinthians 7:26Therefore, I think that because of the disaster that is coming, it is good for a man to 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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