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 have looked to the rock, Is planted in comeliness, And Ephraim is to bring out unto a slayer his sons.

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck in those days;

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days;

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;

for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;

I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that it is good for a man that the matter be thus: --

His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry.

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days;