Hosea 9:14
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.In other versions
Give them, O Jehovah-what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
ASV
O Lord, what will you give them? Give them bodies which may not give birth and breasts without milk.
BBE
Give them, Jehovah -- what wilt thou give? -- give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
DBY
Give them--Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
WEB
Give to them, Jehovah -- what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.
YLT
Give them, O LORD: what will you give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
ENG
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
WBT
Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!
BSB
In context
12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
13Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
14Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
15All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
16Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.