0 The Bible: Topics: Barren women

A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about. Psalms 97:3

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What the Bible says about barren women

If you obey God, you won't have any barren women (or animals).

If ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them ... there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. Deuteronomy 7:12-14

Ye shall serve the LORD your God, and ... there shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren. Exodus 23:26

God makes a barren woman keep house, and be the joyful mother of children.

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Psalm 113:9

Barren women should sing and rejoice.

Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD. Isaiah 54:1

Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. Galatians 4:27

A barren womb is one of the three or four things that are never satisfied.

There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough. Proverbs 30:16-17

Someday people will say, "Blessed are the barren women."

For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Luke 23:29


Barren women in the Bible

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