Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Give them a
King James Version
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Holman Bible
What should You give?
Give them a womb that miscarries
and breasts that are dry!
International Standard Version
Give them, LORD What will you give? You will give them a womb that miscarries and dry breasts.
A Conservative Version
Give them, O LORD--what will thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
American Standard Version
Give them, O Jehovah-what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Amplified
Give them [the punishment they deserve], O Lord! What will You give?
Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Bible in Basic English
O Lord, what will you give them? Give them bodies which may not give birth and breasts without milk.
Darby Translation
Give them, Jehovah what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Julia Smith Translation
Give to them, O Jehovah: what wilt thou give? give to them a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.
King James 2000
Give them, O LORD: what will you give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Give them, Yahweh-- what will you give [them]? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Modern King James verseion
Give them, O Lord; what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O LORD thou shalt give them: what shalt thou give them? Give them an unfruitful womb and dry breasts!
NET Bible
Give them, O Lord -- what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry, and breasts that cannot nurse!
New Heart English Bible
Give them?LORD what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
The Emphasized Bible
Give them, O Yahweh - what wilt thou give? Give them, a miscarrying womb, and breasts dried up.
Webster
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
World English Bible
Give them -- Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Youngs Literal Translation
Give to them, Jehovah -- what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.
Themes
Interlinear
Nathan
Nathan
Nathan
Shakol
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 9:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ephraim Bereaved Of Offspring
13
Ephraim, as I saw Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim shall bring forth his sons to the murderer.
14
Give them a
Names
Cross References
Luke 23:29
For, behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bare and the breasts which never gave suck.
Job 21:10
Their cows conceive, and do not abort; their cows calve and do not cast forth their young.
Hosea 9:11
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth even from the womb and from the conception.
Hosea 9:13
Ephraim, as I saw Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim shall bring forth his sons to the murderer.
Hosea 9:16
Ephraim was smitten, their root is dried up; they shall bear no more fruit; even though they bring forth, yet I will slay even the desirable fruit of their womb.
Matthew 24:19
And woe unto those that are with child and to those that give suck in those days!
Mark 13:17
But woe to those that are with child and to those that give suck in those days!
Luke 21:23
But woe unto those that are with child and to those that give suck in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people.
1 Corinthians 7:26
I hold, therefore, this to be good because of the present distress, that it is good for a man to be thus: