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Hosea 9:14
Hosea 9:14 is verse 14 of Hosea chapter 9, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!
King James Version
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
World English Bible
Give them—Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
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Hosea 9:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible
12 Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them!
13 I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a meadow. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
14 Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!
15 All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
16 Ephraim is struck down; their root is withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay the darlings of their wombs.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Hosea 9:13I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a meadow. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
Hosea 9:16Ephraim is struck down; their root is withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay the darlings of their wombs.
Matthew 24:19How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
Mark 13:17How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
Luke 21:23How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.
Luke 23:29Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
1 Corinthians 7:26Because of the present crisis, I think it is good for a man to remain as he is.
Job 21:10Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.