Hosea 9:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Luke 23:29 : 29 For indeed, the days are coming in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts which never nursed.
  • 1 Cor 7:26 : 26 I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distress—that it is good for a man to remain as he is.
  • Job 21:10 : 10 Their bull breeds and does not fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry.
  • Hos 9:11 : 11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from birth, from the womb, and from conception.
  • Hos 9:13 : 13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
  • Hos 9:16 : 16 Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yes, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
  • Matt 24:19 : 19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those nursing babies in those days!
  • Mark 13:17 : 17 But woe to those who are with child, and to those who nurse infants in those days!
  • Luke 21:23 : 23 But woe to those who are with child and to those who give suck in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hos 9:15-17
    3 verses
    77%

    15All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them; for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.

    16Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yes, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

    17My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to 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, from birth, from the womb, and from conception.

    12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left; yes, woe also to them when I depart from them!

    13Ephraim, as I saw Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

  • Lam 3:65
    75%

    65Give them sorrow of heart, Your curse upon them.

  • Jer 18:21
    73%

    21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

  • Luke 23:29
    73%

    29For indeed, the days are coming in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts which never nursed.

  • Hos 2:3-5
    3 verses
    72%

    3Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

    4And I will not have mercy on her children; for they are the children of whoredoms.

    5For their mother has played the harlot: she who conceived them has acted shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my 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 opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, so that they might know that I am the LORD.

  • Ps 28:4
    72%

    4Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors; give them after the work of their hands; render to them their due.

  • Jer 9:15
    72%

    15Therefore thus says the LORD 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 has borne seven languishes: she has given up the ghost; her sun has gone down while it was yet day: she has been ashamed and confounded: and the rest of them I will deliver to the sword before their enemies, says the LORD.

  • Isa 66:9
    71%

    9Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? says the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? says your God.

  • Lam 2:20
    71%

    20Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom You have done this. Shall the women eat their offspring, the children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

  • Isa 13:18
    71%

    18Their bows will dash the young men to pieces; and they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye will not spare children.

  • Jer 16:3
    71%

    3For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who begot them in this land:

  • Hos 13:16
    70%

    16Samaria shall become desolate; for she has 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 open.

  • Isa 32:12
    70%

    12They shall lament for the breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

  • Ezek 16:39
    70%

    39And I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your eminent place, and shall break down your high places; they shall strip you also of your clothes, and shall take your beautiful jewels, and leave you naked and bare.

  • Prov 30:16
    70%

    16The grave, and the barren womb, the earth that is never filled with water, and the fire that never says, It is enough.

  • Ps 109:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

    10Let his children be continually wanderers and beg; let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.

  • Hos 13:13
    70%

    13The sorrows of a laboring woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.

  • Job 39:16
    70%

    16She is harsh toward her young, as if they were not hers; her labor is in vain, without fear;

  • Jer 15:7
    70%

    7And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they do not return from their ways.

  • Lam 4:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones; the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

    4The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask for bread, and no one breaks it for them.

  • Hos 10:14
    69%

    14Therefore a tumult shall arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be plundered, as Shalman plundered Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces on her children.

  • Job 24:9
    69%

    9They snatch the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge from 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; they will have no one to bury them—neither 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 compassionate women have cooked their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Mark 13:17
    69%

    17But woe to those who are with child, and to those who nurse infants in those days!

  • Ps 17:14
    69%

    14From men who are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world who have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hidden treasure; they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babies.

  • Deut 28:56-57
    2 verses
    69%

    56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture 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 comes out from between her feet, and toward her children who she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and distress, with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.

  • Job 24:21
    69%

    21He does evil to the barren who does not bear, and shows no kindness to the widow.

  • Jer 17:3
    69%

    3O my mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures to the spoil, and your high places for sin, throughout all your borders.

  • Isa 9:17
    69%

    17Therefore the Lord will have no joy in their young men, nor have mercy on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Jer 13:21
    69%

    21What will you say when he shall punish you? For you have taught them to be captains, and as chief over you: shall sorrows not take hold of you, as a woman in labor?

  • Job 22:9
    69%

    9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Ezek 23:34
    69%

    34You shall even drink it and drain it out, and you shall break its shards, and pluck off your own breasts: for I have spoken it, says the Lord GOD.

  • Jer 24:9
    69%

    9And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their harm, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

  • Ps 80:5
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    5You feed them with the bread of tears and give them tears to drink in great measure.

  • Isa 28:9
    68%

    9Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

  • Exod 22:24
    68%

    24and my wrath shall grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.

  • Matt 24:19
    68%

    19But woe to those who are pregnant and to those nursing babies in those days!