5 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.
1 Samuel 2:5
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2 Baruch 10:13–15
13 And you, ye bridegrooms, enter not in, And let not the brides adorn themselves with garlands And, ye women, pray not that ye may bear. (2BA) 14 For the barren shall above all rejoice, And those who have no sons shall be glad, And those who have sons shall have anguish. (2BA) 15 … (2BA)
Luke 23:28–30
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Galatians 4:26–28
26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. 27 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 husba…
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