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Hosea 9:14
14Give them, Adonai, what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dried up 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.
- 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
12For if they should raise their children, I would make them childless to the last man. Yes, woe to them when I depart from them! 13Ephraim, as I have seen, is like Tyre, planted in a meadow, but Ephraim will bring his children out to the slayer.” Give them, Adonai, what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dried up breasts. 15“All their wickedness is at Gilgal, for there I despised them. Because of their wicked practices, I will drive them out of My House. I will love them no more. All their princes are rebellious. 16Ephraim is blighted; their root is withered; they bear no fruit. Even if they bring forth children, I will slay the cherished ones in 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
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Hosea 9:14
- Hosea 9:13Ephraim, as I have seen, is like Tyre, planted in a meadow, but Ephraim will bring his children out to the slayer.”
- Matthew 24:19Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
- Mark 13:17Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
- Luke 21:23“Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath on this people.
- Luke 23:29For indeed, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are barren, and the wombs that never gave birth, and the breasts that did not feed.’
- 1 Corinthians 7:26I think then, because of the present distress, that it is good for a man to remain as he is.
- Job 21:10His bull breeds without fail; his cow 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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