Berean Standard Bible
Hosea 9:14
14Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!
Hosea 9:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
- New International Version (NIV)Give them, Lord— what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Give them, O Lord— what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Give them, O Lord— What will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb And dry breasts!
Context of Hosea 9:14
12Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them! 13I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a meadow. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter. Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up! 15All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious. 16Ephraim is struck down; their root is withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay the darlings of their wombs.
Read all of Hosea 9Hosea 9:14 word by word
תֵּן־לָהֶ֥ם יְהוָ֖ה מַה־תִּתֵּ֑ן תֵּן־לָהֶם֙ רֶ֣חֶם מַשְׁכִּ֔יל וְשָׁדַ֖יִם צֹמְקִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Hosea 9:14
- Hosea 9:13I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a meadow. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
- Matthew 24:19How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
- Mark 13:17How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
- Luke 21:23How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.
- Luke 23:29Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
- 1 Corinthians 7:26Because of the present crisis, I think it is good for a man to remain as he is.
- Job 21:10Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.
Commentaries on Hosea 9:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? - There is an uncommon beauty in these words. The prophet, seeing the evils that were likely to fall upon his countrymen, begins to make intercession for them; but when he had formed the first part of his petition, "Give them, O Lord!" the prophetic light discovered to him that the petition would not be answered and that God was about to give them something widely different. Then changing his petition, which the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-17Verses 11-17 . God departs from a people, or from a person, when he withdraws his goodness and mercy from them; and when the Lord is departed, what can the creature do? Even though, for the present, good things seem to remain, yet the blessing is gone if God is gone. Even the children should perish with the parents. The Divine wrath dries up the root, and withers the fruit of all comforts; and the scattered Jews daily warn us to beware, lest we neglect or…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. what wilt thou give?--As if overwhelmed by feeling, he deliberates with God what is most desirable. give ... a miscarrying womb--Of two evils he chooses the least. So great will be the calamity, that barrenness will be a blessing, though usually counted a great misfortune (Job 3:3; Jr 20:14; Lu 23:29).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Hosea 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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