1 Samuel 2:5 - The Scriptures 1998

⁵ “The satisfied have hired themselves out for bread, and the hungry have ceased. Even the barren has borne seven, and she who has many children pines away.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; And they that were hungry ceased: So that the barren hath born seven; And she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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 languishes and is forlorn.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; And they that were hungry have ceased to hunger: Yea, the barren hath borne seven; And she that hath many children languisheth.

Common English Bible

⁵ Those who were filled full now sell themselves for bread, but the ones who were starving are now fat from food! The woman who was barren has birthed seven children, but the mother with many sons has lost them all!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Those who before were filled, have hired themselves out for bread. And the starving have been filled, so that the barren have given birth to many. But she who had borne many sons has become unable.

1 Samuel 2:5 Cross References

Psalm 113:9

Causing the barren woman to dwell in a house, A rejoicing mother of children. Praise Yah!

Psalm 34:10

Young lions have lacked and been hungry; But those who seek יהוה  lack not any good matter.

Isaiah 33:9

The earth shall mourn and languish, Leḇ

Isaiah 54:1

“Sing, O barren one, you who did not bear! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who have not been in labour! For the children of the deserted one are more than the children of the married woman,” said יהוה.

Jeremiah 15:9

“She who has borne seven shall pine away. She shall breathe her last. Her sun shall go down while it is yet day. She shall be put to shame and be humiliated. And their remnant I give up to the sword before their enemies,” declares יהוה.

Luke 1:53

“He has filled the hungry with good items, and the rich He has sent away empty.

Luke 16:25

“But Aḇ

Galatians 4:27

For it has been written, “Rejoice, O barren, you who do not bear! Break forth and shout, you who do not have birth pains! For the deserted one has many more children than she who has a husband.”

Ruth 4:15

“And he shall be to you a restorer of life and a sustainer of your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him.”

1 Samuel 1:20

And it came to be at the turn of days, that Ḥ

1 Samuel 1:6

Moreover, her rival also provoked her greatly, to make her irritable, because יהוה  had shut up her womb.