Our LORD, do just one thing for your people— make their women unable to have children or to nurse their babies.
Their cattle have lots of calves without ever losing one;
Your women will give birth to healthy children, and everyone will live a long life.
And so, Israel, your glory will fly away like birds— your women will no longer be able to give birth.
Israel, when I first met you, I thought of you as palm trees growing in fertile ground. Now you lead your people out, only to be slaughtered.
Israel, you are a vine with dried up roots and fruitless branches. Even if you had more children and loved them dearly, I would slaughter them all.
It will be a terrible time for women who are expecting babies or nursing young children.
It will be an awful time for women who are expecting babies or nursing young children.
It will be an awful time for women who are expecting babies or nursing young children! Everywhere in the land people will suffer horribly and be punished.
Some day people will say, “Women who never had children are really fortunate!”
We are now going through hard times, and I think it is best for you to stay as you are.
You'll have only a few children, your crops will be small, and your herds of cattle and flocks of sheep and goats won't produce many young.