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 [and prosperous] meadow like Tyre;
But Ephraim will bring out his children to the executioner [for slaughter].
Ephraim, as I have seen,
Is planted in a pleasant [and prosperous] meadow like Tyre;
But Ephraim will bring out his children to the executioner [for slaughter].
Matthew 24:19 And woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
Mark 13:17 And woe to those women who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
Luke 21:23 Woe to those women who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! For great trouble and anguish will be on the land, and wrath and retribution on this people [Israel].
Luke 23:29 For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not given birth, and the breasts that have never nursed.’
1 Corinthians 7:26
I think then that because of the impending distress [that is, the pressure of the current trouble], it is good for a man to remain as he is.
A miscarrying womb
Job 21:10
“His bull breeds and does not fail;
His cow calves and does not miscarry.
“His bull breeds and does not fail;
His cow calves and does not miscarry.
General references
Mark 13:17 And woe to those women who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!