Hosea 9:14

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

12But even if they do have children, I will cause them all to die so that none are still alive. It will be a terrible time for the Israelites, because I will turn away from them. 13At one time, I saw that Ephraim's land was a beautiful place, like Tyre. But now Ephraim's people must bring out their children for an enemy to kill them.’ Lord, what should I ask you to give to these people? Make it impossible for their women to give birth! Stop the milk from their breasts to feed their babies! 15The Lord says, ‘They started to do evil things at Gilgal. It was there that I began to hate them. Because they do evil things, I will chase them out of my land. I will not love them any more. Their leaders have all turned against me. 16Ephraim's people are very sick. They are like a plant that has dry roots and it gives no fruit. Even if they give birth to children that they love very much, I will kill those children.’

Hosea 9:14 word by word

תֵּן־לָהֶ֥ם יְהוָ֖ה מַה־תִּתֵּ֑ן תֵּן־לָהֶם֙ רֶ֣חֶם מַשְׁכִּ֔יל וְשָׁדַ֖יִם צֹמְקִֽים׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Giveנָתַןnâthan · to give: giveH5414
• them, O Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• them a miscarryingשָׁכֹלshâkôl · be bereavedH7921
• wombרֶ֫חֶםrechem · wombH7358
• and dryצָמַקtsâmaq · to shrivelH6784
• breastsשַׁדshad shôd · breastH7699

Cross-references for Hosea 9:14

• Hosea 9:13At one time, I saw that Ephraim's land was a beautiful place, like Tyre. But now Ephraim's people must bring out their children for an enemy to kill them.’
• Matthew 24:19That will be a bad time for women who are soon to have a baby! It will also be a bad time for those women who have little babies!
• Mark 13:17That will be a bad time for women who are soon to have a baby. It will also be a bad time for those women who have little babies.
• Luke 21:23That will be a very bad time for women who are soon to have a baby! It will also be a bad time for those women who have little babies! Yes, very bad things will happen to all the people of this country. God will be very angry with the people who live here.
• Luke 23:29Listen! Days will come when people will say, “It is better for those women that could not have babies. Those women that never had babies to feed are the happy ones!”
• 1 Corinthians 7:26This is what I think: There are many troubles in the world today. So it is better for everybody to continue as they are.
• Job 21:10Their cows give birth safely to many calves.

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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In the dictionaries

• Cornfloor
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• Depart
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• Miscarrying
• Hosea
• Zechariah, Book of

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