I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.’
Genesis 21:1 - New International Version (Anglicised) Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition THE Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for her as He had promised. American Standard Version (1901) And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did unto Sarah as he had spoken. Common English Bible The LORD was attentive to Sarah just as he had said, and the LORD carried out just what he had promised her. Catholic Public Domain Version Then the Lord visited Sarah, just as he had promised; and he fulfilled what he had spoken. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken. |
I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.’
Then God said, ‘Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.’
Then one of them said, ‘I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.’ Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him.
Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.’
My master’s wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and he has given him everything he owns.
Then Joseph said to his brothers, ‘I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.’
But the woman became pregnant, and the next year about that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.
Remember me, Lord, when you show favour to your people, come to my aid when you save them,
And the words of the Lord are flawless, like silver purified in a crucible, like gold refined seven times.
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
‘Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, “The Lord, the God of your fathers – the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.
and they believed. And when they heard that the Lord was concerned about them and had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshipped.
‘Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come to his people and redeemed them.
They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognise the time of God’s coming to you.’
His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise.
in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time,
When Naomi heard in Moab that the Lord had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there.
Early the next morning they arose and worshipped before the Lord and then went back to their home at Ramah. Elkanah made love to his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered her.
And the Lord was gracious to Hannah; she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the Lord.