1 Samuel 2:5

Good News Translation

The people who once were well fed now hire themselves out to get food, but the hungry are hungry no more. The childless wife has borne seven children, but the mother of many is left with none.

Cross References

Psalm 113:9

He honors the childless wife in her home; he makes her happy by giving her children. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 34:10

Even lions go hungry for lack of food, but those who obey the Lord lack nothing good.

Isaiah 33:9

The land lies idle and deserted. The forests of Lebanon have withered, the fertile valley of Sharon is like a desert, and in Bashan and on Mount Carmel the leaves are falling from the trees.

Isaiah 54:1

Jerusalem, you have been like a childless woman, but now you can sing and shout for joy. Now you will have more children than a woman whose husband never left her.

Jeremiah 15:9

The mother who lost her seven children has fainted, gasping for breath. Her daylight has turned to darkness; she is disgraced and sick at heart. I will let your enemies kill those of you who are still alive. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Luke 1:53

He has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away with empty hands.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, ‘Remember, my son, that in your lifetime you were given all the good things, while Lazarus got all the bad things. But now he is enjoying himself here, while you are in pain.

Galatians 4:27

For the scripture says, “Be happy, you childless woman! Shout and cry with joy, you who never felt the pains of childbirth! For the woman who was deserted will have more children than the woman whose husband never left her.”

Ruth 4:15

Your daughter-in-law loves you, and has done more for you than seven sons. And now she has given you a grandson, who will bring new life to you and give you security in your old age.”

1 Samuel 1:20

So it was that she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, and explained, “I asked the Lord for him.”

1 Samuel 1:6

Peninnah, her rival, would torment and humiliate her, because the Lord had kept her childless.