Hosea 9:14

Hosea 9:14

12 Though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them to the last man.
Yes, ^awoe to them when I depart from them!

13 Just ^aas I saw Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place,
So Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.”

14 Give them, O Lord—
What will You give?
Give them ^aa miscarrying womb
And dry breasts!

15 “All their wickedness is in ^aGilgal,
For there I hated them.
Because of the evil of their deeds
I will drive them from My house;
I will love them no more.
^bAll their princes are rebellious.

16 Ephraim is ^astricken,
Their root is dried up;
They shall bear no fruit.
Yes, were they to bear children,
I would kill the darlings of their womb.”

17 My God will ^acast them away,
Because they did not obey Him;
And they shall be ^bwanderers among the nations.

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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Give them a miscarrying womb - The prophet prays for Israel, and debates with himself what he can ask for, amid this their determined wickedness, and God' s judgments. Since "Ephraim" was "to bring forth children to the murderer," then it was mercy to ask for them, that they might have no children. Since such are the evils which await their children, grant them, O Lord, as a blessing, the sorrows of barrenness. What God had before pronounced as a punishment, should, as compared to other evils, be a mercy, and an object of prayer. So our Lord pronounces as to the destruction of Jerusalem. "Behold the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps that never gave suck" Luke 23:29. "O unhappy fruitfulness and fruitful unhappiness, compared with which, barrenness, which among them was accounted a curse, became blessedness."

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