Hosea 9:14
Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Context
This verse from Hosea Chapter 9 connects to 9 cross-references. Israel is commanded not to rejoice like the nations because they have played the harlot against their God. The days of punishment are coming; the prophet is called a fool by a people corrupted since Gibeah. Ephraim's glory will fly …
Other Translations
Give them, O Jehovah—what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Give to them, Jehovah--what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.
O Lord, what will you give them? Give them bodies which may not give birth and breasts without milk.
Cross References
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that …
But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall …
Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will …
Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the …
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from …
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man …