Hosea 9:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarryingd womb and dry breasts. ”

Hosea 9:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 brin...
Hosea 9:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a (p) miscarrying womb and dry breasts. (p) The Prophet seeing the great plagues of God toward Ephraim, prays to God to make them barren, rather tha...
Hosea 9:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Nemesis of an Impure Worship ( cf. Hosea 4:11-14 ). Israel in unspoilt youth had appeared to Yahweh like grapes in the wilderness, but at the very first of the Canaanite shrines which they re...
Hosea 9:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Interpreters translate these words in a different way: “Give them what thou art about to give,” then they repeats “Give them;” but, as I think, they do not comprehend the design of the Prophet,...
Hosea 9:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? - There is an uncommon beauty in these words. The prophet, seeing the evi...
Hosea 9:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Give them a miscarrying womb— As a punishment for having inhumanly exposed their infants to death, by sacrificing them to their false gods; or, for having exposed them to the cruelty of the Assyria...
Hosea 9:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? As if overwhelmed by feeling, he deliberates with God what is mos...
Hosea 9:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Exile is at Hand This prophecy appears to have been written in a time of rejoicing over a good harvest and vintage. Israel need not rejoice, says the prophet, with the wild joy of the heathen. The...
Hosea 9:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Better universal childlessness than that the off-spring should be exposed to so terrible a fate. Compare this with our Lord’s words: “Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare,” &c.
Hosea 9:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

4. "THE CORRUPTION THAT IS THROUGH LUST" Hosea 9:10-17 CF. Hosea 4:11-14 Those who at the present time are enforcing among us the revival of a paganism-without the pagan conscience-and exalti...
Hosea 9:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Wanderers among the Nations” Hosea 9:10-17 At the Exodus the love and thanks of Israel were as delightful to God as grapes in the desert or as the first ripe figs. But they gave themselves up...
Hosea 9:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The judgment was then described in detail. Its first note was of the death of joy. Israel could not find her joy like other peoples. She had gone whoring from God, loving hire on every threshing floo...
Hosea 9:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

There is the same strain in this part of the Prophet's discourse as in the former: and the whole sum and substance of the sermon, is the Lord's grace and Israel's unworthiness. But I hope the Reader...
Hosea 9:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give them ?.... The prophet foreseeing the butchery and destruction of their children, his heart ached for them; and, to show his tender affection for this people,...
Hosea 9:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. Ver. 14. Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give?] This question implieth abundance of affection in the prophet,...
Hosea 9:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? The prophet here speaks as one greatly agitated, and at a loss what to say upon what he had just heard; but at last concludes with beseeching God rather to l...
Hosea 9:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings of Judgment. B. C. 740. 11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away l...
Hosea 9:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Give them, O Lord; it is an abrupt but very pathetical speech of one that shows his trouble for the state of a sinking, undone nation, it is an intercession for them. What wilt thou give? as if h...
Hosea 9:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ephraim's Future Is Bleak ( Hosea 9:11-17 ). As a result of their sinfulness Ephraim's future is depicted as being very bleak. Their wealth and prosperity (their ‘glory' - compare Isaiah 17:3 ) w...
Hosea 9:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES .— Hosea 9:11 . Their glory ] Children the glory of parents, sterility a reproach. Eph .]= fruitfulness ( Genesis 41:52 , marg), which characteristic should cease; licentious wors...
Hosea 9:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 9:1 . Rejoice not, oh Israel, with the shouts of harvest, and the songs of the vintage, as all heathen nations have done, and have ascribed their harvests to their idols; for God was about t...
Hosea 9:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Hosea 9:1-28 Contain a warning against security arising from temporary prosperity. Hosea 9:1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people. The occasion on which the pr...
Hosea 9:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Corruption of Israel and its Consequences
Hosea 9:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 7:26 ; Hosea 9:13 ; Hosea 9:16 ; Job 21:10 ; Luke 21:23 ; Luke 23:29 ; Mark 13:17 ; Matthew 24:19
Hosea 9:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Give then — It is an abrupt but pathetic speech of one that shews his trouble for a sinking, undone nation. A miscarrying womb — It is less misery to have none, than to have all our children murder...

Hosea 9:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hosea 9:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Hosea 9:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 9:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 9:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Hosea 9:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Hosea 9:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Hosea 9:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 9:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hosea 9:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Hosea 9:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Hosea 9:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hosea 9:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hosea 9:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Hosea 9:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Hosea 9:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 9:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hosea 9:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Hosea 9:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 9:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Hosea 9:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 9:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Hosea 9:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Hosea 9:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 9:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes