Holy Scripture
Hosea 9:12
A church father on this verse
“God is not ashamed to take flesh from such members, for he framed these very members. Who tells us this? The Lord said to Jeremiah, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you. Before you were born I dedicated you." If in fashioning me, therefore, he touched them and was not ashamed, was he ashamed in forming for hims…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
12For even if they should rear their children, yet shall they be utterly bereaved: wherefore also there is woe to them, though my flesh is of them.
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In context
10I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness, and I saw their fathers as an early watchman in a fig tree: they went in to Baal-peor, and were shamefully estranged, and the abominable became as the beloved.
11Ephraim has flown away as a bird; their glories from the birth, and the travail, and the conception.
— Hosea 9:12 —
13Ephraim, even as I saw, gave their children for a prey; yea, Ephraim was ready to bring out his children to slaughter.
14Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give them? a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.