Hosea 9:14

9:14 Give them, O Lord –

what will you give them?

Give them wombs that miscarry,

and breasts that cannot nurse! ¹ 

Deuteronomy 28:18

28:18 Your children ²  will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

Deuteronomy 28:57

28:57 and will secretly eat her afterbirth ³  and her newborn children ⁴  (since she has nothing else), ⁵  because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

Luke 23:29

23:29 For this is certain: ⁶  The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’ ⁷ 

¹ tn Heb “breasts that shrivel up dry”; cf. KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV “dry breasts.”

² tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

³ tn Heb includes “that which comes out from between her feet.”

⁴ tn Heb “her sons that she will bear.”

⁵ tn Heb includes “in her need for everything.”

⁶ tn Grk “For behold.”

⁷ tn Grk “Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not borne, and the breasts that have not nursed!”