Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry.
Hosea 9:14 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Give them--LORD what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 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 breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry.
No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.
As for Efrayim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, none with child, and no conception.
I have seen Efrayim, like Tzor, planted in a pleasant place; but Efrayim will bring out his children to the murderer.
Efrayim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.*
But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!
But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days!
Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.
For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'
I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.
Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.