Parallel Verses
King James Version
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
New American Standard Bible
Give them a
Holman Bible
What should You give?
Give them a womb that miscarries
and breasts that are dry!
International Standard Version
Give them, LORD What will you give? You will give them a womb that miscarries and dry breasts.
A Conservative Version
Give them, O LORD--what will thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
American Standard Version
Give them, O Jehovah-what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Amplified
Give them [the punishment they deserve], O Lord! What will You give?
Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Bible in Basic English
O Lord, what will you give them? Give them bodies which may not give birth and breasts without milk.
Darby Translation
Give them, Jehovah what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Julia Smith Translation
Give to them, O Jehovah: what wilt thou give? give to them a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.
King James 2000
Give them, O LORD: what will you give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Give them, Yahweh-- what will you give [them]? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Modern King James verseion
Give them, O Lord; what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O LORD thou shalt give them: what shalt thou give them? Give them an unfruitful womb and dry breasts!
NET Bible
Give them, O Lord -- what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry, and breasts that cannot nurse!
New Heart English Bible
Give them?LORD what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
The Emphasized Bible
Give them, O Yahweh - what wilt thou give? Give them, a miscarrying womb, and breasts dried up.
Webster
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
World English Bible
Give them -- Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Youngs Literal Translation
Give to them, Jehovah -- what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.
Themes
Interlinear
Nathan
Nathan
Nathan
Shakol
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 9:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ephraim Bereaved Of Offspring
13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. 14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
Names
Cross References
Luke 23:29
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Job 21:10
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
Hosea 9:11
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
Hosea 9:13
Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
Hosea 9:16
Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
Matthew 24:19
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Mark 13:17
But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Luke 21:23
But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
1 Corinthians 7:26
I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.