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
I have seen Ephraim like Tyre,
planted in a meadow,
so Ephraim will bring out his children
to the executioner.
Matthew 24:19
Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!
Mark 13:17
Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!
Luke 21:23
Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days, for there will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.
Luke 23:29
Look, the days are coming when they will say, ‘The women without children, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed, are fortunate!’
1 Corinthians 7:26
Therefore I consider this to be good because of the present distress: It is fine for a man to remain as he is.

A miscarrying womb

Job 21:10
Their bulls breed without fail;
their cows calve and do not miscarry.

General references

Mark 13:17
Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!

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