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 most desirable.
Give them 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; Jeremiah 20:14; Luke 23:29).