Then Avraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, *Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?*
When I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.
Then shall you say in your heart, Who has conceived these for me, seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering back and forth? and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?
Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be brought forth at once? for as soon as Tziyon travailed, she brought forth her children.
Surely there is no enchantment with Ya`akov; Neither is there any divination with Yisra'el. Now it shall be said of Ya`akov and of Yisra'el, What has God done!
to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,
when he comes to be glorified in his holy ones, and to be admired among all those who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed) in that day.