¹⁴ Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

²⁹ For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.

²⁶ I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

²³ But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

¹⁷ But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

¹⁹ And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

¹⁶ Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

¹³ Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

¹¹ As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

¹⁰ Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.