Hosea 9:14
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Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!
In other translations
Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Luke 23:29For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
- Luke 21:23But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.
- 1 Corinthians 7:26I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.Because of the present crisis, I think it is good for a man to remain as he is.
- Mark 13:17But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
- Job 21:10Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.
- Hosea 9:11As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.
- Hosea 9:16Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.Ephraim is struck down; their root is withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay the darlings of their wombs.
- Matthew 24:19And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
- Hosea 9:13Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a meadow. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
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