Hosea 9:14
O Lord, giue them: what wilt thou giue them? giue them a baren wombe and drie breasts.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.
Hosea 9:13Ephraim, as I sawe, is as a tree in Tyrus planted in a cottage: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murtherer.
Matthew 24:19And woe shalbe to them that are with childe, and to them that giue sucke in those dayes.
Luke 21:23But woe be to them that be with childe, and to them that giue sucke in those dayes: for there shalbe great distresse in this land, and wrath ouer this people.
1 Corinthians 7:26I suppose then this to bee good for the present necessitie: I meane that it is good for a man so to be.
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 →