Hosea 9:14
Good News Translation
What shall I ask you to do to these people? Make their women barren! Make them unable to nurse their babies!

New Revised Standard Version
Give them, O LORD— what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Contemporary English Version
Our LORD, do just one thing for your people--make their women unable to have children or to nurse their babies.

New American Bible
Give them, LORD! give them what? Give them a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give them? Give them a womb without children, and dry breasts.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give them? Give them a womb without children, and dry breasts.

what.

Hosea 9:13,16 Ephraim, as I saw, was a Tyre, founded in beauty: and Ephraim shall bring out his children to the murderer. . . .

Matthew 24:19 And woe to them that are with child and that give suck in those days.

Mark 13:17 And woe to them that are with child and that give suck in those days.

Luke 21:23 But woe to them that are with child and give suck in those days: for there shall be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people.

Luke 23:29 For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren and the wombs that have not borne and the paps that have not given suck.

1 Corinthians 7:26 I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity: that it is good for a man so to be.

a miscarrying womb.

Job 21:10 Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.

Context
Hosea Announces Israel's Punishment
13Ephraim, as I saw, was a Tyre, founded in beauty: and Ephraim shall bring out his children to the murderer. 14Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give them? Give them a womb without children, and dry breasts.15All their wickedness is in Galgal, for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their devices I will cast them forth out of my house: I will love them no more, all their princes are revolters.…
Cross References
Exodus 23:26
There shall not be one fruitless nor barren in thy land: I will fill the number of thy days.

Hosea 9:11
As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like bird from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

Hosea 9:13
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