Bible verses about "infertility" | BBE

²¹ Isaac made prayer to the Lord for his wife because she had no children; and the Lord gave ear to his prayer, and Rebekah became with child.

²⁸ And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

¹⁴ You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring.

²¹ And the Lord had mercy on Hannah and she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. And the young Samuel became older before the Lord.

³ Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

¹³ I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.

² And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.

¹³ My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.

³ See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.

³ He makes the broken-hearted well, and puts oil on their wounds.

¹ Let your voice be loud in song, O woman without children; make melody and sounds of joy, you who did not give birth: for the children of her who had no husband are more than those of the married wife, says the Lord. ² Make wide the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your house be stretched out without limit: make your cords long, and your tent-pins strong. ³ For I will make wide your limits on the right hand and on the left; and your seed will take the nations for a heritage, and make the waste towns full of people. ⁴ Have no fear; for you will not be shamed or without hope: you will not be put to shame, for the shame of your earlier days will go out of your memory, and you will no longer keep in mind the sorrows of your widowed years. ⁵ For your Maker is your husband; the Lord of armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is he who takes up your cause; he will be named the God of all the earth. ⁶ For the Lord has made you come back to him, like a wife who has been sent away in grief of spirit; for one may not give up the wife of one's early days. ⁷ For a short time I gave you up; but with great mercies I will take you back again. ⁸ In overflowing wrath my face was veiled from you for a minute, but I will have pity on you for ever, says the Lord who takes up your cause. ⁹ For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry with you, or say bitter words to you. ¹⁰ For the mountains may be taken away, and the hills be moved out of their places, but my love will not be taken from you, or my agreement of peace broken, says the Lord, who has had mercy on you. ¹¹ O troubled one, storm-crushed, uncomforted! see, your stones will be framed in fair colours, and your bases will be sapphires. ¹² I will make your towers of rubies, and your doors of carbuncles, and the wall round you will be of all sorts of beautiful stones. ¹³ And all your builders will be made wise by the Lord; and great will be the peace of your children. ¹⁴ All your rights will be made certain to you: have no fear of evil, and destruction will not come near you. ¹⁵ See, they may be moved to war, but not by my authority: all those who come together to make an attack on you, will be broken against you. ¹⁶ See, I have made the iron-worker, blowing on the burning coals, and making the instrument of war by his work; and I have made the waster for destruction. ¹⁷ No instrument of war which is formed against you will be of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.

³⁶ Even now Elisabeth, who is of your family, is to be a mother, though she is old: and this is the sixth month with her who was without children. ³⁷ For there is nothing which God is not able to do.

¹¹ And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word;

³ And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting; ⁴ And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope: ⁵ And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.

¹² Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,

¹ Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim, a Zuphite of the hill-country of Ephraim, named Elkanah; he was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite: ² And he had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah: and Peninnah was the mother of children, but Hannah had no children. ³ Now this man went up from his town every year to give worship and to make offerings to the Lord of armies in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the Lord, were there. ⁴ And when the day came for Elkanah to make his offering, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and daughters, their part of the feast: ⁵ But to Hannah he gave one part, though Hannah was very dear to him, but the Lord had not let her have children. ⁶ And the other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy, because the Lord had not let her have children; ⁷ And year by year, whenever she went up to the house of the Lord, she kept on attacking her, so that Hannah gave herself up to weeping and would take no food. ⁸ Then her husband Elkanah said to her, Hannah, why are you weeping? and why are you taking no food? why is your heart troubled? am I not more to you than ten sons? ⁹ So after they had taken food and wine in the guest room, Hannah got up. Now Eli the priest was seated by the pillars of the doorway of the Temple of the Lord. ¹⁰ And with grief in her soul, weeping bitterly, she made her prayer to the Lord. ¹¹ And she made an oath, and said, O Lord of armies, if you will truly take note of the sorrow of your servant, not turning away from me but keeping me in mind, and will give me a man-child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut. ¹² Now while she was a long time in prayer before the Lord, Eli was watching her mouth. ¹³ For Hannah's prayer came from her heart, and though her lips were moving she made no sound: so it seemed to Eli that she was overcome with wine. ¹⁴ And Eli said to her, How long are you going to be the worse for drink? Put away the effects of your wine from you. ¹⁵ And Hannah, answering him, said, No, my lord, I am a woman whose spirit is broken with sorrow: I have not taken wine or strong drink, but I have been opening my heart before the Lord. ¹⁶ Do not take your servant to be a good-for-nothing woman: for my words have come from my stored-up sorrow and pain. ¹⁷ Then Eli said to her, Go in peace: and may the God of Israel give you an answer to the prayer you have made to him. ¹⁸ And she said, May your servant have grace in your eyes. So the woman went away, and took part in the feast, and her face was no longer sad. ¹⁹ And early in the morning they got up, and after worshipping before the Lord they went back to Ramah, to their house: and Elkanah had connection with his wife; and the Lord kept her in mind. ²⁰ Now the time came when Hannah, being with child, gave birth to a son; and she gave him the name Samuel, Because, she said, I made a prayer to the Lord for him. ²¹ And the man Elkanah with all his family went up to make the year's offering to the Lord, and to give effect to his oath. ²² But Hannah did not go, for she said to her husband, I will not go till the child has been taken from the breast, and then I will take him with me and put him before the Lord, where he may be for ever. ²³ And her husband Elkanah said to her, Do whatever seems right to you, but not till you have taken him from the breast; only may the Lord do as he has said. So the woman, waiting there, gave her son milk till he was old enough to be taken from the breast. ²⁴ Then when she had done so, she took him with her, with a three-year old ox and an ephah of meal and a skin full of wine, and took him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh: now the child was still very young. ²⁵ And when they had made an offering of the ox, they took the child to Eli. ²⁶ And she said, O my lord, as your soul is living, my lord, I am that woman who was making a prayer to the Lord here by your side: ²⁷ My prayer was for this child; and the Lord has given him to me in answer to my request: ²⁸ So I have given him to the Lord; for all his life he is the Lord's. Then he gave the Lord worship there.

³³ I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.

²⁴ For this reason I say to you, Whatever you make a request for in prayer, have faith that it has been given to you, and you will have it.

⁹ He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.