Hosea 9:14

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Berilah kepada mereka, ya TUHAN--apakah yang hendak Kauberi? Berilah kepada mereka kandungan yang mandul dan buah dada yang kering.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Berilah kepada mereka, ya TUHAN--apakah yang hendak Kauberi? Berilah kepada mereka kandungan yang mandul dan buah dada yang kering.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Berikanlah kepada mereka itu, ya Tuhan! barang yang patut diberikan kepadanya; berikanlah kepada mereka itu kandungan yang menggugurkan anak dan susu yang kekeringan.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Ephraim their glorie shall flee away like a birde: for birth, for wombe, and conception. ¹² And though they bryng vp children, yet I wyll destroy them before they be men: Yea wo shall come to them when I depart from them. ¹³ Ephraim (as me thinke) is planted in a pleasaunt place, like as is Tyrus: but nowe must she bryng her owne children foorth to the manslayer. ¹⁴ O Lorde geue them: what shalt thou geue them? Geue them an vnfruitfull wombe, and drye breastes. ¹⁵ All their wickednesse is done at Gilgall, there do I abhorre them: for the vngratiousnesse of their owne inuentions I wyll driue them out of my house, I wyll loue them no more, for all their princes are vnfaithfull. ¹⁶ Ephraim is hewen downe, their roote is dried vp, so that they shall bryng no more fruite: yea and though they bryng foorth any, yet wyll I slay euen the best beloued of their body. ¹⁷ My God shall cast them away, for they haue not ben obedient vnto him, therfore shall they wander among the heathen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

what: Hosea 9:13, Hosea 9:16, Matthew 24:19, Mark 13:17, Luke 21:23, Luke 23:29, 1 Corinthians 7:26

a miscarrying womb: Heb. a womb that casteth the fruit, Job 21:10

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 2:19 - barren Esther 5:11 - the multitude Job 3:11 - died I Job 27:14 - children Hosea 9:11 - from the womb

Gill's Notes on the 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, was desirous of putting up a supplication for them; but was at a loss what to ask, their sins were so many, and so aggravated, and the decree gone forth for their destruction: or, "give them what thou wilt give them" l; so Jarchi, Kimchi, and Abarbinel, what thou hast threatened before to give them, Hosea 9:11; do not give them to be butchered and murdered before the eyes of their parents by their enemies; but rather let them die in the womb, or as soon as born; so it follows:

give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts; the latter being a sign of the former, as physicians observe; or the words may be rendered disjunctively, give them one, or the other; that is, to the wives of the people of Israel, if they conceive, let them miscarry, prove abortive, rather than bring forth children to be destroyed in such a cruel manner by murderers; or if they bear them to the birth, and bring them forth, let their breasts be dried up, and afford no milk for their nourishment; and so die for lack of it, rather than fall into the hands of their merciless enemies: thus, of two evils, the prophet chooses and prays for the least. Some interpret this as a prediction of what would be, or an imprecation of it; but it rather seems a pathetic wish, flowing from the tender affection of the prophet, judging such a case to be preferable to the former; see Luke 23:29; though the other sense seems best to agree with what follows, and which is favoured by the Targum,

"give thou, O Lord, the recompence of their works; give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.''

l תן להם מה תתן "da eis quod daturus es", Junius Tremellius, Vatablus, Grotius "da illis id quod dabis", Schmidt.

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 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.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 9:14. Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? — There is an uncommon beauty in these words. The prophet, seeing the evils that were likely to fall upon his countrymen, begins to make intercession for them; but when he had formed the first part of his petition, "Give them, O Lord!" the prophetic light discovered to him that the petition would not be answered and that God was about to give them something widely different. Then changing his petition, which the Divine Spirit had interrupted, by signifying that he must not proceed in his request, he asks the question, then, "What wilt thou give them?" and the answer is, "Give them a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts." And this he is commanded to announce. It is probable that the Israelites had prided themselves in the fruitfulness of their families, and the numerous population of their country. God now tells them that this shall be no more; their wives shall be barren, and their land cursed.