Hosea 13:13

‘The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him,

He is an unwise son,

For it is time he should not tarry,

In the place of the breaking forth of children.’

But there could be only one consequence of this. Instead of being a living son, led by leading reins, and protected in the wilderness (Hosea 13:5-6; Hosea 11:1; Hosea 11:3-4), they would be like the son resulting from an untimely birth, trapped in the womb and without the strength to come forth. While his mother travails in sorrow and pain, he tarries in the womb and fails to proceed to the place of breaking forth of children. And finally he dies. And his mother dies with him. (It is not, of course, the still-born babe which is ‘unwise’ but those whom the still-born babe represents).