Genesis 21:5-7
5 aAbraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. 6And Sarah said, b“God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me.” 7And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? cYet I have borne him a son in his old age.”Genesis 25:21
21And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. And dthe Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.Genesis 30:22-23
22Then God eremembered Rachel, and God listened to her and fopened her womb. 23She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away gmy reproach.”1 Samuel 2:5
5Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread,but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger.
hThe barren has borne seven,
ibut she who has many children is forlorn.
Psalms 68:6
6God jsettles the solitary in a home;he kleads out the prisoners to prosperity,
but lthe rebellious dwell in ma parched land.
Isaiah 54:1
The Eternal Covenant of Peace
1 n“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 othe desolate one pwill be more
than the children of her who is married,” says the Lord.
Luke 1:13-15
13But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for qyour prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and ryou shall call his name John. 14And you will have joy and gladness, and many will srejoice at his birth, 15for he will be tgreat before the Lord. And uhe must not drink wine or strong vdrink, and whe will be xfilled with the Holy Spirit, yeven from his mother’s womb.
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