Psalms 113:9

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He makes the barren woman of the family a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD!

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 68:6 : 6 God settles those who have been deserted in their own homes; he frees prisoners and grants them prosperity. But sinful rebels live in the desert.
  • Isa 54:1 : 1 Zion Will Be Secure“Shout for joy, O barren one who has not given birth! Give a joyful shout and cry out, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one are more numerous than the children of the married woman,” says the LORD.
  • 1 Sam 2:5 : 5 The well-fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even the barren woman has given birth to seven, but the one with many children has declined.
  • Gen 21:5-7 : 5 (Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.) 6 Sarah said,“God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.” 7 She went on to say,“Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son for him in his old age!”
  • Gen 25:21 : 21 Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.
  • Gen 30:22-23 : 22 Then God took note of Rachel. He paid attention to her and enabled her to become pregnant. 23 She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Then she said,“God has taken away my shame.”
  • Luke 1:13-15 : 13 But the angel said to him,“Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son; you will name him John. 14 Joy and gladness will come to you, and many will rejoice at his birth, 15 for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He must never drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even before his birth.
  • Gal 4:27 : 27 For it is written:“Rejoice, O barren woman who does not bear children; break forth and shout, you who have no birth pains, because the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than those of the woman who has a husband.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 54:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    1 Zion Will Be Secure“Shout for joy, O barren one who has not given birth! Give a joyful shout and cry out, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one are more numerous than the children of the married woman,” says the LORD.

    2 Make your tent larger, stretch your tent curtains farther out! Spare no effort, lengthen your ropes, and pound your stakes deep.

  • Ps 113:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7 He raises the poor from the dirt, and lifts up the needy from the garbage pile,

    8 that he might seat him with princes, with the princes of his people.

  • 27 For it is written:“Rejoice, O barren woman who does not bear children; break forth and shout, you who have no birth pains, because the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than those of the woman who has a husband.”

  • 74%

    27 Watching over the ways of her household, she would not eat the bread of idleness.

    28 Her children have risen and called her blessed; her husband also has praised her:

  • 3 Yes, sons are a gift from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward.

  • Ps 128:2-4
    3 verses
    72%

    2 You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.

    3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner rooms of your house; your children will be like olive branches, as they sit all around your table.

    4 Yes indeed, the man who fears the LORD will be blessed in this way.

  • 5 The well-fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even the barren woman has given birth to seven, but the one with many children has declined.

  • Deut 7:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13 He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you.

    14 You will be blessed beyond all peoples; there will be no barrenness among you or your livestock.

  • 14 A house and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

  • 25 May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice.

  • 21 He preys on the barren and childless woman, and does not treat the widow well.

  • 9 “Do I bring a baby to the birth opening and then not deliver it?” asks the LORD.“Or do I bring a baby to the point of delivery and then hold it back?” asks your God.

  • 1 Every wise woman has built her household, but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.

  • 13 For he makes the bars of your gates strong. He blesses your children within you.

  • 9 May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!

  • 27 For this boy I prayed, and the LORD has given me the request that I asked of him.

  • 3 The LORD’s angel appeared to the woman and said to her,“You are infertile and childless, but you will conceive and have a son.

  • 31 Give her credit for what she has accomplished, and let her works praise her in the city gates.

  • 5 How blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! They will not be put to shame when they confront enemies at the city gate.

  • 9 The LORD protects the resident foreigner; he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked.

  • 26 No woman will miscarry her young or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

  • 12 May your family become like the family of Perez– whom Tamar bore to Judah– through the descendants the LORD gives you by this young woman.”

  • 20 Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife saying,“May the LORD establish descendants for you from this woman in place of the one that she dedicated to the LORD.”Then they would go to their home.

  • Ps 68:5-6
    2 verses
    68%

    5 He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy dwelling place.

    6 God settles those who have been deserted in their own homes; he frees prisoners and grants them prosperity. But sinful rebels live in the desert.

  • 4 How blessed are those who live in your temple and praise you continually!(Selah)

  • Ps 115:14-15
    2 verses
    68%

    14 May he increase your numbers, yours and your children’s!

    15 May you be blessed by the LORD, the Creator of heaven and earth!

  • 5 But to Hannah he would give a double portion, because he loved Hannah, although the LORD had not enabled her to have children.

  • Ps 107:36-37
    2 verses
    68%

    36 He allowed the hungry to settle there, and they established a city in which to live.

    37 They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit.

  • 21 And because the midwives feared God, he made households for them.

  • 41 Yet he protected the needy from oppression, and cared for his families like a flock of sheep.

  • 1 Praise the LORD! How blessed is the one who obeys the LORD, who takes great delight in keeping his commands.

  • 29 For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say,‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’

  • 9 The LORD your God will make the labor of your hands abundantly successful and multiply your children, the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil. For the LORD will once more rejoice over you to make you prosperous just as he rejoiced over your ancestors,

  • 21 The LORD deserves praise in Zion– he who dwells in Jerusalem. Praise the LORD!

  • 12 you young men and young women, you elderly, along with you children!

  • 15 I will abundantly supply what she needs; I will give her poor all the food they need.

  • 18 but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow!

  • 9 you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.

  • 27 As he said these things, a woman in the crowd spoke out to him,“Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts at which you nursed!”

  • 13 the blessing of the dying man descended on me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice;