English Standard Version
Hosea 9:14
14Give them, O Lord— what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Give them, O Lord— What will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb And dry breasts!
- New Living Translation (NLT)O Lord, what should I request for your people? I will ask for wombs that don’t give birth and breasts that give no milk.
Context of Hosea 9:14
12Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them! 13Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow; but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter. Give them, O Lord— what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 15Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels. 16Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, I will put their beloved children to death.
Read all of Hosea 9Hosea 9:14 word by word
תֵּן־לָהֶ֥ם יְהוָ֖ה מַה־תִּתֵּ֑ן תֵּן־לָהֶם֙ רֶ֣חֶם מַשְׁכִּ֔יל וְשָׁדַ֖יִם צֹמְקִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Hosea 9:14
- Hosea 9:13Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow; but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.
- Matthew 24:19And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days!
- Mark 13:17And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days!
- Luke 21:23Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and wrath against this people.
- Luke 23:29For behold, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!'
- 1 Corinthians 7:26I think that in view of the present distress it is good for a person to remain as he is.
- Job 21:10Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and does 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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