Genesis 21:6

When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

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.”

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

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

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

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.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

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

Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.

as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and his offspring forever.”

The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

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

Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

The women said to Naomi, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you today without a near kinsman. Let his name be famous in Israel.

Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”

When all our enemies heard of it, all the nations that were around us were afraid, and they lost their confidence; for they perceived that this work was done by our God.

Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

“Oh, my son! Oh, son of my womb! Oh, son of my vows!

“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.

You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

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

Zacharias said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.”

“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

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.

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

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,

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.

Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”

Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth; and there is no one who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up.

“Before she travailed, she gave birth. Before her pain came, she delivered a son.

“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

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

Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”

Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.”

For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.

The children of your bereavement will say in your ears, ‘This place is too small for me. Give me a place to live in.’

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

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

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.”

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

They will never be hungry or thirsty any more. The sun won’t beat on them, nor any heat;

Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”

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

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children and am alone, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought these up? Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’ ”

As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of Yahweh’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.

You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

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

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

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.