Their bulls never fail to mate.\par Their cows have baby calves,\par and the baby calves don’t die at birth.\par
Hosea 9:14 - Easy To Read Version Lord, give them what you will. Give them a womb that loses babies, give them breasts that can’t give milk. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Their bulls never fail to mate.\par Their cows have baby calves,\par and the baby calves don’t die at birth.\par
Your women will all be able to have babies. None of their babies will die at birth. And I will allow you to live long lives.
Like a bird, Ephraim’s {\cf2\super [94]} glory will fly away. There will be no more pregnancies, no more births, no more babies.
I can see that Ephraim is leading his children into a trap. {\cf2\super [95]} Ephraim brings out his children to the killer.
Ephraim {\cf2\super [97]} will be punished.\par Their root is dying.\par They will not have any more babies.\par They might give birth to babies,\par but I will kill the precious babies\par that come from their bodies.\par
At that time, it will be bad for women that are pregnant or have small babies!
At that time, it will be bad for women that are pregnant or have small babies.
At that time, it will be bad for women that are pregnant or have small babies. Why? Because very bad times will come to this land. God will be angry with these people (the Jews).
The time is coming when people will say, ‘Happy are the women that cannot have babies! Happy are the women that have no children to care for.’
This is a time of trouble. So I think that it is good for you to stay the way you are (not married).
The Lord will curse you, and you will not have many children. He will curse your land and you will not have good crops. He will curse your animals and they will not have many babies. He will curse all your calves and lambs.