Hosea 9:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Luke 23:29 : 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 that never gave suck.
1 Cor 7:26 : 26 I think therefore that this is good by reason of the distress that is upon us, [namely,] that it is good for a man to be as he is.
Job 21:10 : 10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
Hos 9:11 : 11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.
Hos 9:13 : 13 Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring out his children to the slayer.
Hos 9:16 : 16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb.
Matt 24:19 : 19 But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!
Mark 13:17 : 17 But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!
Luke 21:23 : 23 {G1161} Woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days! for there shall be great distress upon the land, and wrath unto this people.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Hos 9:15-17
3 verses
77%
15All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my 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 the beloved fruit of their womb.
17My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Hos 9:11-13
3 verses
75%
11As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.
12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, so that not a man shall be left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
13Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring out his children to the slayer.
Lam 3:65
75%
65Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them.
Jer 18:21
73%
21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battle.
Luke 23:29
73%
29For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.
Hos 2:3-5
3 verses
72%
3lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
4Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of whoredom;
5for their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived them hath done shamefully; for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
Ezek 20:26
72%
26and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through [the fire] all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Jehovah.
Ps 28:4
72%
4Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings: Give them after the operation of their hands; Render to them their desert.
Jer 9:15
72%
15therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
Jer 15:9
72%
9She that hath borne seven languisheth; she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day; she hath been put to shame and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith Jehovah.
Isa 66:9
71%
9Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith Jehovah: shall I that cause to bring forth shut the womb? saith thy God.
Lam 2:20
71%
20See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Isa 13:18
71%
18And [their] bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
Jer 16:3
71%
3For thus saith Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land:
Hos 13:16
70%
16Samaria shall bear her guilt; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Isa 32:12
70%
12They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Ezek 16:39
70%
39I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thy vaulted place, and break down thy lofty places; and they shall strip thee of thy clothes, and take thy fair jewels; and they shall leave thee naked and bare.
Prov 30:16
70%
16Sheol; And the barren womb; The earth that is not satisfied with water; And the fire that saith not, Enough.
Ps 109:9-10
2 verses
70%
9Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
10Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek [their bread] out of their desolate places.
Hos 13:13
70%
13The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for it is time he should not tarry in the place of the breaking forth of children.
Job 39:16
70%
16She dealeth hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers: Though her labor be in vain, [she is] without fear;
Jer 15:7
70%
7And I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved [them] of children, I have destroyed my people; they returned not from their ways.
Lam 4:3-4
2 verses
70%
3Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
4The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
Hos 10:14
69%
14Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
Job 24:9
69%
9There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;
Jer 14:16
69%
16And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them—them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.
Lam 4:10
69%
10The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Mark 13:17
69%
17But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!
Ps 17:14
69%
14From men by thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the world, whose portion is in [this] life, And whose belly thou fillest with thy treasure: They are satisfied with children, And leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Deut 28:56-57
2 verses
69%
56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
57and toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
Job 24:21
69%
21He devoureth the barren that beareth not, And doeth not good to the widow.
Jer 17:3
69%
3O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, [and] thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.
Isa 9:17
69%
17Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Jer 13:21
69%
21What wilt thou say, when he shall set over thee as head those whom thou hast thyself taught to be friends to thee? shall not sorrows take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail?
Job 22:9
69%
9Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Ezek 23:34
69%
34Thou shalt even drink it and drain it out, and thou shalt gnaw the sherds thereof, and shalt tear thy breasts; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Jer 24:9
69%
9I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
Ps 80:5
69%
5Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.
Isa 28:9
68%
9Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
Exod 22:24
68%
24and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Matt 24:19
68%
19But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!