1 Samuel 2:5
They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
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- Ps 113:9 : 9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
- Jer 15:9 : 9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
- Isa 54:1 : 1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
- 1 Sam 1:6 : 6 And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
- 1 Sam 1:20 : 20 Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.
- Ps 34:10 : 10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
- Luke 1:53 : 53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
- Luke 16:25 : 25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
- Gal 4:27 : 27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
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