Hosea 9:13-14

Hosea 9:13-14 King James Version (KJV)
13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Hosea 9:13-14 Expanded Bible (EXB)

13 I have seen Israel, like •Tyre [or a young palm],
•given [L planted in] a pleasant place.
But •the people of Israel [L Ephraim;4:17] will soon bring out
their children to •be killed[slaughter; or the slayer].”
14 LORD, •give them what they should have [L give them].
What will you give them?
•Make their women unable to have children [L Give them wombs that miscarry];
give them •dried-up breasts that cannot feed their babies[L dry breasts].

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13 Ephraim is the largest area of Israel and the place to where Hosea spoke to for the most part. Palm trees are not common in the meadow they are often by the shore; this may symbolize Israel being out of place being somewhere that they are not meant to be. They were leading their children on a path of sin they way against the Lord the world is like this today parents are raising up their children without the knowledge of the Lord.

14 Hosea knowing what the Lord is going to give them is not blessings but knowing it is from the Lord it is justice for their sins, God had showed them grace and mercy but they refused to turn back to Him, He warned them, there comes a time that grace and mercy are gone and justice comes and those who reject the Lord would hope that they listened to the warnings He gave. The people often times served fertility gods which this is symbolism to show that these gods are nothing compared to the Lord.