Hosea 9:14

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

Ephraim, when I looked toward Tyre, was planted in a pleasant place. But Ephraim shall bring out his sons to the murderer.

And woe to those who are with child, and to those who give suck in those days!

But woe to those with babe in womb, and to those who give suck in those days!

But woe to those who are with child, and to those suckling in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land and wrath on this people.

For behold, the days are coming in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts which did not suckle.

Then I think this is good, because of the present necessity; that it is good for a man to be so.

Their bull mates and does not fail; their cow calves, and does not cast her calf.

But woe to those with babe in womb, and to those who give suck in those days!