Psalms 113:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 68:6 : 6 Those who are without friends, God puts in families; he makes free those who are in chains; but those who are turned away from him are given a dry land.
  • Isa 54:1 : 1 Let your voice be loud in song, O woman without children; make melody and sounds of joy, you who did not give birth: for the children of her who had no husband are more than those of the married wife, says the Lord.
  • 1 Sam 2:5 : 5 Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.
  • Gen 21:5-7 : 5 Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place. 6 And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me. 7 And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have a child at her breast? for see, I have given him a son now when he is old.
  • Gen 25:21 : 21 Isaac made prayer to the Lord for his wife because she had no children; and the Lord gave ear to his prayer, and Rebekah became with child.
  • Gen 30:22-23 : 22 Then God gave thought to Rachel, and hearing her prayer he made her fertile. 23 And she was with child, and gave birth to a son: and she said, God has taken away my shame.
  • Luke 1:13-15 : 13 But the angel said, Have no fear, Zacharias, for your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your wife Elisabeth will have a son, and his name will be John. 14 And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth. 15 For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.
  • Gal 4:27 : 27 For it is in the Writings, You who have never given birth, be glad; give cries of joy, you who have had no birth-pains; for the children of her who has been given up by her husband are more than those of the woman who has a husband.

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  • Isa 54:1-2
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    78%

    1Let your voice be loud in song, O woman without children; make melody and sounds of joy, you who did not give birth: for the children of her who had no husband are more than those of the married wife, says the Lord.

    2Make wide the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your house be stretched out without limit: make your cords long, and your tent-pins strong.

  • Ps 113:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7He takes the poor man out of the dust, lifting him up from his low position;

    8To give him a place among the rulers, even with the rulers of his people.

  • Gal 4:27
    75%

    27For it is in the Writings, You who have never given birth, be glad; give cries of joy, you who have had no birth-pains; for the children of her who has been given up by her husband are more than those of the woman who has a husband.

  • Prov 31:27-28
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    74%

    27She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.

    28Her children get up and give her honour, and her husband gives her praise, saying,

  • Ps 127:3
    73%

    3See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.

  • Ps 128:2-4
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    72%

    2You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.

    3Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

    4See! this is the blessing of the worshipper of the Lord.

  • 1 Sam 2:5
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    5Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.

  • Deut 7:13-14
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    71%

    13And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.

    14You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring.

  • Prov 19:14
    71%

    14House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.

  • Prov 23:25
    71%

    25Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

  • Job 24:21
    70%

    21He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.

  • Isa 66:9
    70%

    9Will I by whom the birth was started, not make it complete? says the Lord. Will I who make children come to birth, let them be kept back? says your God.

  • Prov 14:1
    70%

    1Wisdom is building her house, but the foolish woman is pulling it down with her hands.

  • Ps 147:13
    70%

    13He has made strong the iron bands of your doors; he has sent blessings on your children inside your walls.

  • Ps 109:9
    70%

    9Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.

  • 1 Sam 1:27
    69%

    27My prayer was for this child; and the Lord has given him to me in answer to my request:

  • Judg 13:3
    69%

    3And the angel of the Lord came to the woman, and said to her, See now! though you have never given birth to children, you will be with child and give birth to a son.

  • Prov 31:31
    69%

    31Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.

  • Ps 127:5
    68%

    5Happy is the man who has a good store of them; he will not be put to shame, but his cause will be supported by them against his haters.

  • Ps 146:9
    68%

    9The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.

  • Exod 23:26
    68%

    26All your animals will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in all your land; I will give you a full measure of life.

  • Ruth 4:12
    68%

    12May your family be like the family of Perez, the son whom Tamar gave to Judah, from the offspring which the Lord may give you by this young woman.

  • 1 Sam 2:20
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    20And every year Eli gave Elkanah and his wife a blessing, saying, May the Lord give you offspring by this woman in exchange for the child you have given to the Lord. And they went back to their house.

  • Ps 68:5-6
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    68%

    5A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.

    6Those who are without friends, God puts in families; he makes free those who are in chains; but those who are turned away from him are given a dry land.

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    68%

    4Happy are they whose resting-place is in your house: they will still be praising you. (Selah.)

  • Ps 115:14-15
    2 verses
    68%

    14May the Lord give you and your children still greater increase.

    15May you have the blessing of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

  • 1 Sam 1:5
    68%

    5But to Hannah he gave one part, though Hannah was very dear to him, but the Lord had not let her have children.

  • Ps 107:36-37
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    36And there he gives the poor a resting-place, so that they may make themselves a town;

    37And put seed in the fields and make vine-gardens, to give them fruit.

  • Exod 1:21
    68%

    21And because the women who took care of the Hebrew mothers had the fear of God, he gave them families.

  • Ps 107:41
    68%

    41But he puts the poor man on high from his troubles, and gives him families like a flock.

  • Ps 112:1
    67%

    1Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.

  • Luke 23:29
    67%

    29For the days are coming in which they will say, Happy are those who have had no children, whose bodies have never given birth, whose breasts have never given milk.

  • Deut 30:9
    67%

    9And the Lord your God will make you fertile in all good things, blessing the work of your hands, and the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land: for the Lord will have joy in you, as he had in your fathers:

  • Ps 135:21
    67%

    21Praise be to the Lord out of Zion, even to the Lord whose house is in Jerusalem, Let the Lord be praised.

  • Ps 148:12
    67%

    12Young men and virgins; old men and children:

  • Ps 132:15
    67%

    15My blessing will be on her food; and her poor will be full of bread.

  • Job 31:18
    67%

    18(For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)

  • Job 22:9
    67%

    9You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

  • Luke 11:27
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    27And it came about that when he said these things, a certain woman among the people said in a loud voice, Happy is the body which gave you birth, and the breasts from which you took milk.

  • Job 29:13
    67%

    13The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.