Hosea 9:14
Context9:14 Give them, O Lord –
what will you give them?
Give them wombs that miscarry,
and breasts that cannot nurse! 1
Deuteronomy 28:18
Context28:18 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
Context28:57 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
Context23:29 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
[9:14] 1 tn Heb “breasts that shrivel up dry”; cf. KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV “dry breasts.”
[28:18] 2 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).
[28:57] 3 tn Heb includes “that which comes out from between her feet.”
[28:57] 4 tn Heb “her sons that she will bear.”
[28:57] 5 tn Heb includes “in her need for everything.”
[23:29] 6 tn Grk “For behold.”
[23:29] 7 tn Grk “Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not borne, and the breasts that have not nursed!”