1 Samuel 2:5

The Scriptures 2009

“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.

Cross References

Psalm 113:9

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

Psalm 34:10

Kaph 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, Leḇanon shall be ashamed. Sharon shall be withered like a desert, and Bashan and Karmel be shaking.

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 Aḇraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your life you received your good, and likewise El‛azar the evil, but now he is comforted and you are suffering.

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 Ḥannah conceived and bore a son, and called his name Shemu’ĕl, “Because I have asked יהוה for him.”

1 Samuel 1:6

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