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Genesis 21:6

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Sarah said, ‘God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears will laugh with me.’  ,

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‘Rejoice, childless one, who did not give birth; burst into song and shout, you who have not been in labour! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of the married woman,’ says the Lord.


Abraham fell face down. Then he laughed  and said to himself, ‘Can a child be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, give birth? ’


Then her neighbours and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her his great mercy,  and they rejoiced with her.


There will be joy and delight for you, and many will rejoice at his birth.


Then you will say within yourself, “Who fathered these for me? I was deprived of my children and unable to conceive, exiled and wandering – but who brought them up? See, I was left by myself – but these, where did they come from? ” ’


Rejoice with those who rejoice;  weep with those who weep.


By faith even Sarah herself, when she was unable to have children, received power to conceive offspring, even though she was past the age, since she  considered that the one who had promised was faithful.


‘Please, my lord,’ she said, ‘as surely as you live,  my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the Lord.


‘Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the child of her womb? Even if these forget, yet I will not forget you.


May the man be cursed who brought the news to my father, saying, ‘A male child is born to you,’ bringing him great joy.





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