2 Kings 4:17

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

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.

“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 Yahweh.

But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”

Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.

However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

They rose up in the morning early and worshiped Yahweh, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.

But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

“Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

Sarai was barren. She had no child.

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”

But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.

The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring.

Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab; for she had heard in the country of Moab how Yahweh had visited his people in giving them bread.

So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son.

Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,

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

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Behold, Elizabeth your relative also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;

and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”

A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

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

Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

For this is how in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.