Quotes about Barrenness

you seven times more for your sins. I will break the pride of your power; I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit." — LEVITICUS 26:16-20

Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.

And Abraham and Sarah were already old and well along in years; Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.

When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.

Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.

But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved her even though the LORD had closed her womb.

Because the LORD had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival would provoke her and taunt her viciously.

and said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine!”

The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.