1 Samuel 2:5
Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry have ceased [to hunger]. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.
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- Ps 113:9 : 9 He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!
- Jer 15:9 : 9 She who has borne seven languishes; she has given up the spirit; her sun is gone down while it was yet day; she has been disappointed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, says Yahweh.
- Isa 54:1 : 1 "Sing, barren, you who didn't bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife," says Yahweh.
- 1 Sam 1:6 : 6 Her rival provoked her severely, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.
- 1 Sam 1:20 : 20 It happened, when the time had come, that Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, [saying], "Because I have asked him of Yahweh."
- Ps 34:10 : 10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.
- Luke 1:53 : 53 He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.
- Luke 16:25 : 25 "But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
- Gal 4:27 : 27 For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who don't bear. Break forth and shout, you that don't travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband."
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