21 Therefore, (A)give their children over to famine
And turn them over to the [a]power of the sword;
And let their wives become (B)childless and (C)widowed.
Let their men also be slaughtered to death,
Their (D)young men struck and killed by the sword in battle.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 18:21 Lit hands of

12 Though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them of their children [a]until not a person is left.
Yes, (A)woe to them indeed when I depart from them!
13 Ephraim, as I have seen,
Is planted in a pasture like (B)Tyre;
But Ephraim is going to bring out his children for slaughter.
14 Give to them, Lord—what will You give?
Give them a (C)miscarrying womb and dried-up breasts.

15 All their evil is at (D)Gilgal;
Indeed, I came to hate them there!
Because of the (E)wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of My house!
I will no longer love them;
All their leaders are (F)rebels.
16 (G)Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up,
They will produce (H)no fruit.
Even though they give birth to children,
I will put to death the (I)precious ones of their womb.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:12 Lit without a person

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