1 Samuel 2:5

The English Standar Version

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 is forlorn.

Cross References

Luke 1:53

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

Psalm 113:9

He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the LORD!

Jeremiah 15:9

She who bore seven has grown feeble; she has fainted away; her sun went down while it was yet day; she has been shamed and disgraced. And the rest of them I will give to the sword before their enemies, declares the LORD."

Psalm 34:10

The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.

Isaiah 54:1

"Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her who is married," says the LORD.

1 Samuel 1:6

And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the LORD had closed her womb.

1 Samuel 1:20

And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, "I have asked for him from the LORD."[2]

Galatians 4:27

For it is written, "Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband."

Ruth 4:15

He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has given birth to him."

Isaiah 33:9

The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.