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Hosea 9:14 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Give them—LORD what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. "

Hosea 9:14

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

13 I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.

14 Give them—LORD what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

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

16 Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”

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Hosea 9:1

"Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor."

Hosea 9:2

"The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her."

Hosea 9:3

"They won’t dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria."

Hosea 9:4

"They won’t pour out wine offerings to the LORD, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into the LORD’s house."

Hosea 9:5

"What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?"

Hosea 9:6

"For, behold, when they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents."

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