Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

A miscarrying womb

General references

Bible References

What

Hosea 9:13
Ephraim, as I have seen,
Is planted in a pleasant meadow like Tyre;
But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
Matthew 24:19
But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
Mark 13:17
But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
Luke 21:23
Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days; for there will be great distress upon the land and wrath to this people;
Luke 23:29
For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’
1 Corinthians 7:26
I think then that this is good in view of the present distress, that it is good for a man to remain as he is.

A miscarrying womb

Job 21:10
“His ox mates without fail;
His cow calves and does not abort.

General references

Mark 13:17
But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!