Hosea 9:14 KJV — MannaFest

Hosea 9:14

Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

KJV

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ASV

Give them, O Jehovah—what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

WEB

Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!

YLT

Give to them, Jehovah--what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.

DBT

Give them, Jehovah — what wilt thou give? — give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

About this book

Old Testament

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Hosea — A prophet commanded to marry an unfaithful wife — his marriage becomes the sermon. Fourteen chapters on covenant unfaithfulness and a love that will not let Israel go.

Author: Hosea son of Beeri (1:1)
Date: Ministry c. 755–715 BC — the decades leading up to the 722 BC fall of the northern kingdom

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Luke 23:29
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
1 Corinthians 7:26
I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
Luke 21:23
But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
Hosea 9:11
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
2 Kings 2:19
And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.

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Rather let them have no children than have them to be made miserable; for the same reason, when a total ruin was coming on the Jewish nation, Christ said, Blessed is the womb that never bore and the paps that never gave suck, Luke xxiii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles. The people of Israel are charged with spiritual adultery: O Israel! thou hast gone a whoring from thy God,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Give then - It is an abrupt but pathetic speech of one that shews his trouble for a sinking, undone nation. A miscarrying womb - It is less misery to have none, than to have all our children murdered.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

HOS 9:14LUK 23:29 MAT 24:19
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
HOS 9:14LUK 21:23 LAM 4:10
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
HOS 9:14LUK 23:29 HOS 13:16
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
HOS 9:14MAT 24:19 LUK 23:29-30
HOS 9:14LUK 21:23 LUK 23:29
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
HOS 9:14MAT 24:19 LUK 21:23
HOS 9:14LUK 23:29 LUK 21:23-24
HOS 9:14MAT 24:19 DEU 28:53-56

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