“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
    with painful labor you will give birth to children.^(A)
Your desire will be for your husband,
    and he will rule over you.^(B)”

⁹ He settles the childless^(A) woman in her home
    as a happy mother of children.

Praise the Lord.

“Be glad, barren woman,
    you who never bore a child;
shout for joy and cry aloud,
    you who were never in labor;
because more are the children of the desolate woman
    than of her who has a husband.”^[a](A)