Quotes about Barren

He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

No foot of man or beast will pass through, and it will be uninhabited for forty years.

The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend. For He has done great things.

Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered.

As they were walking back in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered from its roots.

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

Look, even Elizabeth your relative has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren is in her sixth month.

Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’

For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”

Fields plowed and sown, but yielding no fruit! Machinery constantly in motion, but all without one particle of produce! Nets cast into the sea and spread wide, but no fishes caught! All this for years — for a lifetime!

When through the old oak forest I am gone, Let me not wander in a barren dream.