1 Samuel 2:5
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5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread,
And the hungry have ceased to hunger.
Even (A)the barren has borne seven,
And (B)she who has many children has become feeble.
Psalm 113:9
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Luke 1:53
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53 He has (A)filled the hungry with good things,
And the rich He has sent away empty.
Jeremiah 15:9
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9 “She(A) languishes who has borne seven;
She has breathed her last;
(B)Her sun has gone down
While it was yet day;
She has been ashamed and confounded.
And the remnant of them I will deliver to the sword
Before their enemies,” says the Lord.
Psalm 34:10
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10 The young lions lack and suffer hunger;
(A)But those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing.
Isaiah 54:1
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A Perpetual Covenant of Peace
54 “Sing, O (A)barren,
You who have not borne!
Break forth into singing, and cry aloud,
You who have not labored with child!
For more are the children of the desolate
Than the children of the married woman,” says the Lord.
Luke 16:25
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25 But Abraham said, ‘Son, (A)remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented.
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1 Samuel 1:20
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20 So it came to pass in the process of time that Hannah conceived and bore a son, and called his name [a]Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked for him from the Lord.”
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- 1 Samuel 1:20 Lit. Heard by God
1 Samuel 1:6
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6 And her rival also (A)provoked her severely, to make her miserable, because the Lord had closed her womb.
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Galatians 4:27
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27 For it is written:
(A)“Rejoice, O barren,
You who do not bear!
Break forth and shout,
You who are not in labor!
For the desolate has many more children
Than she who has a husband.”
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