1 Samuel 2:5

World Messianic Bible British Edition

Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

Cross References

Psalm 113:9

He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!

Psalm 34:10

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

Isaiah 33:9

The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.

Isaiah 54:1

“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth! Break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child! For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says the LORD.

Jeremiah 15:9

She who has borne seven languishes. She has given up the spirit. Her sun has gone down while it was yet day. She has been disappointed and confounded. I will deliver their residue to the sword before their enemies,” says the LORD.

Luke 1:53

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

Luke 16:25

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted and you are in anguish.

Galatians 4:27

For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you who don’t travail. For the desolate women have more children than her who has a husband.”

Ruth 4:15

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

1 Samuel 1:20

When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of the LORD.”

1 Samuel 1:6

Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because the LORD had shut up her womb.