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

Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? As if overwhelmed by feeling, he deliberates with God what is most desirable.

Give them a miscarrying womb - of two evils he chooses the least. So great will be the calamity, that barrenness will be a blessing, though usually counted a great misfortune (; ; ).

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