14Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
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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.
But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-17)In the foregoing verses we saw the s 38ba in of Israel derived from their fathers; here we see the punishment of Israel derived to their children; for, as death entered by sin at first, so it is still entailed with it. We may observe, in these verses, I. The sin of Ephraim. Some expressions are here which describe that. 1. They did not hearken to God (Hos. 9:17); they did not give attention to the…
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