Genesis 30:17

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

Jehoahaz begged Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.

His mother answered, “Not so; but he will be called John.”

What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,

God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

Yahweh’s angel appeared to the woman, and said to her, “See now, you are barren and childless; but you shall conceive and bear a son.

You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

“Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”

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.

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.

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

He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, “His name is John.” They all marveled.

There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.

The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

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?”

Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”

She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”

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

He said, “At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son.” She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your servant.”

For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for all, slave and free, and there was no helper for Israel.

“You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.

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

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

Behold, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, and shall name him ‘Jesus.’

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.

Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

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.

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.”

I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”

Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”

She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time I will praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.

When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

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

The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s servant): Dan and Naphtali.

The son of Dan: Hushim.

Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” He said, “Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.”

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

About Dan he said, “Dan is a lion’s cub that leaps out of Bashan.”

Yahweh said to him, “Peace be to you! Don’t be afraid. You shall not die.”

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

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.

“Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He will save my people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon my people, because their cry has come to me.”

These are those who served, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, and have become my salvation.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then Yahweh said to me, “Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’

For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely;” so he became their Savior.

So I bought a belt according to Yahweh’s word, and put it on my waist.

For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.

Yahweh said to him, “Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.

I will encamp around my house against the army, that no one pass through or return; and no oppressor will pass through them any more: for now I have seen with my eyes.

The angel answered the women, “Don’t be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified.

He said to them, “Don’t be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!

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.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.