1 Samuel 2:5

WEB

⁵Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

KJV

⁵They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

BSB

⁵The 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.

FBV

⁵Those who used to have plenty of food now have to work to earn a crust, while those who used to be hungry now have become fat. The woman who was childless now has seven children, while the woman with many children fades away.

Extra References

Psalms 113:9

⁹He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!

Luke 1:53

⁵³He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.

Jeremiah 15:9

⁹She who has borne seven languishes. She has given up the spirit. Her sun has gone down while it was yet day. She has been disappointed and confounded. I will deliver their residue to the sword before their enemies,” says the LORD.

Psalms 34:10

¹⁰The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

Isaiah 54:1

¹“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth! Break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child! For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says the LORD.

Luke 16:25

²⁵“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted and you are in anguish.

1 Samuel 1:6

⁶Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because the LORD had shut up her womb.

1 Samuel 1:20

²⁰When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel,^[+] Because I have asked him of the LORD.”

Galatians 4:27

²⁷For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you who don’t travail. For the desolate women have more children than her who has a husband.”