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But Sarai was barren; she had no children.

Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.

When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.

You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.

Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.

The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “It is true that you are barren and have no children; but you will conceive and give birth to a son.

The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.

They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.

He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!

“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.