Give them — Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Parallel translations
- KJV Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
- BSB Give them, O LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!
- NKJV Give them, O Lord— What will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb And dry breasts!
- NASB Give to them, Lord—what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dried-up breasts.
- NLT O Lord, what should I request for your people? I will ask for wombs that don’t give birth and breasts that give no milk.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. lockman.org
Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Luke 23:29For 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.’
- 1 Cor 7:26I 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.
- Luke 21:23Woe 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.
- Hos 9:16Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”
- Matt 24:19But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!
- Hos 9:11As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.
- Mark 13:17But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days!
- Hos 9:13I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.
- Job 21:10Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
Themes, concepts, people & topics
Resources, by level
Commentaries & study tools
Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.
Sermons and teaching on this passage from across YouTube.
Clear, readable, conservative exposition — the best free place to start on any passage.
Matthew Henry, Barnes, Gill, the Pulpit Commentary, Ellicott, Cambridge, and more — stacked on one page for this exact verse.
The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.
Christ at the center
God's relentless love for an unfaithful bride dramatizes the gospel: 'Out of Egypt I called my son' is fulfilled in Jesus, who redeems an adulterous people at his own cost.
How Hosea 9:14 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.
Original language
Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Hebrew word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.