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Hosea 9:14
14O Lord, what should I request for your people? I will ask for wombs that don’t give birth and breasts that give no milk.
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 you do have children who grow up, I will take them from you. It will be a terrible day when I turn away and leave you alone. 13I have watched Israel become as beautiful as Tyre. But now Israel will bring out her children for slaughter.” 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. 15The Lord says, “All their wickedness began at Gilgal; there I began to hate them. I will drive them from my land because of their evil actions. I will love them no more because all their leaders are rebels. 16The people of Israel are struck down. Their roots are dried up, and they will bear no more fruit. And if they give birth, I will slaughter their beloved children.”
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 watched Israel become as beautiful as Tyre. But now Israel will bring out her children for slaughter.”
- Matthew 24:19How terrible it will be for pregnant women and for nursing mothers in those days.
- Mark 13:17How terrible it will be for pregnant women and for nursing mothers in those days.
- Luke 21:23How terrible it will be for pregnant women and for nursing mothers in those days. For there will be disaster in the land and great anger against this people.
- Luke 23:29For the days are coming when they will say, ‘Fortunate indeed are the women who are childless, the wombs that have not borne a child and the breasts that have never nursed.’
- 1 Corinthians 7:26Because of the present crisis, I think it is best to remain as you are.
- Job 21:10Their bulls never fail to breed. Their cows bear calves and never 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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