Barrenness

1. Genesis 25:21

And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. And the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

2. Psalm 113:9

He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!

3. Deuteronomy 7:14

You shall be blessed above all peoples. There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock.

4. Exodus 23:26

None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfil the number of your days.

5. Isaiah 54:1

“Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in labour! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her who is married,” says the Lord.

6. Galatians 4:27

For it is written, “Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labour! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband.”

7. Genesis 11:30

Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.

8. Genesis 29:31

When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

9. Luke 1:7

But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years.

10. 1 Samuel 2:5

Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn.

11. Luke 23:29

For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’

12. Psalm 128:3

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

13. Luke 1:36

And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

14. 1 Samuel 1:1-28

There was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephrathite. He had two wives. The name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. Now this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the Lord. On the day when Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters. But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb. …

15. Job 39:6

To whom I have given the arid plain for his home and the salt land for his dwelling place?

16. Genesis 30:1

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”

17. Joel 2:20

“I will remove the northerner far from you, and drive him into a parched and desolate land, his vanguard into the eastern sea, and his rear guard into the western sea; the stench and foul smell of him will rise, for he has done great things.

18. Psalm 127:3-5

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

19. Genesis 1:28

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

20. Proverbs 30:16

Sheol, the barren womb, the land never satisfied with water, and the fire that never says, “Enough.”

21. Judges 13:3

And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.

22. Genesis 30:22

Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.

23. Psalm 139:13

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.

24. Isaiah 54:1-3

“Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her who is married,” says the Lord. “Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes. For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your offspring will possess the nations and will people the desolate cities.

25. Judges 13:2-3

There was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. And his wife was barren and had no children. And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.

26. Psalm 127:3

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

27. Exodus 23:25-26

You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you. None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfil the number of your days.

28. Psalm 107:34

A fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.

29. Hebrews 11:11-12

By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised. Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.

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