¹⁴ Give them--Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

²⁹ For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'

¹⁰ Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry.

¹¹ As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, none with child, and no conception.

¹³ Ephraim, like I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place; But Ephraim will bring out his children to the killer.

¹⁶ Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb."

¹⁹ But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!

¹⁷ But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days!

²³ Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.

²⁶ I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.