Hosea 9:14
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Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give them? Give them a womb without children, and dry breasts.

what.

Hosea 9:13,16 Ephraim, as I saw, was a Tyre, founded in beauty: and Ephraim shall bring out his children to the murderer. . . .

Matthew 24:19 And woe to them that are with child and that give suck in those days.

Mark 13:17 And woe to them that are with child and that give suck in those days.

Luke 21:23 But woe to them that are with child and give suck in those days: for there shall be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people.

Luke 23:29 For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren and the wombs that have not borne and the paps that have not given suck.

1 Corinthians 7:26 I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity: that it is good for a man so to be.

a miscarrying womb.

Job 21:10 Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.

Context
Hosea Announces Israel's Punishment
13Ephraim, as I saw, was a Tyre, founded in beauty: and Ephraim shall bring out his children to the murderer. 14Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give them? Give them a womb without children, and dry breasts.15All their wickedness is in Galgal, for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their devices I will cast them forth out of my house: I will love them no more, all their princes are revolters.…
Cross References
Exodus 23:26
There shall not be one fruitless nor barren in thy land: I will fill the number of thy days.

Hosea 9:11
As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like bird from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

Lexicon
Give
תֵּן־ (tên-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5414: To give, put, set

them,
לָהֶ֥ם (lā·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

O LORD—
יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

what
מַה־ (mah-)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

will You give?
תִּתֵּ֑ן (tit·tên)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5414: To give, put, set

Give
תֵּן־ (tên-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5414: To give, put, set

them
לָהֶם֙ (lā·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

wombs
רֶ֣חֶם (re·ḥem)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7358: The womb

that miscarry
מַשְׁכִּ֔יל (maš·kîl)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7921: To miscarry, suffer abortion, to bereave

and breasts
וְשָׁדַ֖יִם (wə·šā·ḏa·yim)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - md
Strong's Hebrew 7699: The breast of a, woman, animal

that dry up!
צֹמְקִֽים׃ (ṣō·mə·qîm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6784: To dry up, shrivel


Additional Translations
Give them, O LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!Give them, O LORD: what will you give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Give them, O Jehovah-what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give them? a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.

Give them, Jehovah -- what wilt thou give? -- give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Give them--Yahweh what will you 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.
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