Hosea 9:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Give them, O Lord— what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Give them [their due], O Lord! [But] what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. American Standard Version (1901) Give them, O Jehovah—what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. Common English Bible Give them, LORD— what will you give them? Give them a womb that miscarries and breasts that are dried up. Catholic Public Domain Version Give them, O Lord. What will you give them? Give them a womb without children, and dry breasts. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give them? Give them a womb without children, and dry breasts. |
No one shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
Ephraim’s glory shall fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
Once I saw Ephraim as a young palm planted in a lovely meadow, but now Ephraim must lead out his children for slaughter.
Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, I will kill the cherished offspring of their womb.
Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those days!
Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those days!
Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people;
For the days are surely coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’
I think that, in view of the impending crisis, it is good for you to remain as you are.
“Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock.