Give them, O Lord— what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’
I think that in view of the present distress it is good for a person to remain as he is.
Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and wrath against this people.
And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days!
And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days!
Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, I will put their beloved children to death.
Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow; but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.
Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry.
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