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Selected Verse: Hosea 9:14 - King James

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Ho 9:14 King James Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
what wilt thou give?--As if overwhelmed by feeling, he deliberates with God what is most desirable.

give . . . a miscarrying womb--Of two evils he chooses the least. So great will be the calamity, that barrenness will be a blessing, though usually counted a great misfortune (Job 3:3; Jer 20:14; Luk 23:29).
 
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29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.