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Hosea 9:14
14Give them, Lord— what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry.
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.
- 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!
- 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 rear children, I will bereave them of every one. Woe to them when I turn away from them! 13I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place. But Ephraim will bring out their children to the slayer.” Give them, Lord— what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry. 15“Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal, I hated them there. Because of their sinful deeds, I will drive them out of my house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious. 16Ephraim is blighted, their root is withered, they yield no fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay their cherished offspring.”
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 9:13I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place. But Ephraim will bring out their children to the slayer.”
- Matthew 24:19How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!
- Mark 13:17How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!
- Luke 21:23How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.
- Luke 23:29For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’
- 1 Corinthians 7:26Because of the present crisis, I think that it is good for a man to remain as he is.
- Job 21:10Their bulls never fail to breed; their cows calve 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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