14 If his (A)children are multiplied, it is for (B)the sword,
    and his descendants have not enough bread.

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41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for (A)they shall go into captivity.

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29 For behold, (A)the days are coming when they will say, (B)‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’

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10 His children will seek the favor of the poor,
    and his hands will (A)give back his wealth.

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13 Ephraim, (A)as I have seen, was like a young palm[a] planted in a meadow;
    but (B)Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.[b]
14 Give them, O Lord
    what will you give?
Give them (C)a miscarrying womb
    and dry breasts.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:13 Or like Tyre
  2. Hosea 9:13 Hebrew to him who slaughters

13 May his (A)posterity be cut off;
    may his (B)name be blotted out in the second generation!

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11 They send out their (A)little boys like a flock,
    and their children dance.
12 They sing to (B)the tambourine and (C)the lyre
    and rejoice to the sound of (D)the pipe.

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22 He does not believe that he will return out of darkness,
    and he is marked for the sword.

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The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them. In Susa the citadel itself the Jews killed and destroyed 500 men, and also killed Parshandatha and Dalphon and Aspatha and Poratha and Adalia and Aridatha and Parmashta and Arisai and Aridai and Vaizatha, 10 (A)the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, (B)the enemy of the Jews, (C)but they laid no hand on the plunder.

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11 And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, (A)the number of his sons, all the promotions with which (B)the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the servants of the king.

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Then he wrote to them a second letter, saying, “If you are on my side, and if you are ready to obey me, take the heads of your master's sons and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow at this time.” Now the king's sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, (A)who were bringing them up. And as soon as the letter came to them, they took the king's sons (B)and slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel. When the messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king's sons,” he said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.” Then in the morning, when he went out, he stood and said to all the people, “You are innocent. (C)It was I who conspired against my master and killed him, but who struck down all these? 10 Know then that there shall (D)fall to the earth nothing of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the Lord has done (E)what he said by his servant Elijah.”

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And you shall strike down the house of Ahab your master, so that I may avenge (A)on Jezebel the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord. For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, (B)and I will cut off from Ahab (C)every male, (D)bond or free, in Israel.

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Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread,
    but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger.
(A)The barren has borne seven,
    (B)but she who has many children is forlorn.

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32 (A)Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, (B)but you shall be helpless.

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