Hosea 9:14
Give them—LORD what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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 21:10Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
Hosea 9:13I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.
Matthew 24:19But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!
Luke 21:23Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath to this people.
1 Corinthians 7:26Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, it’s 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 →