Bible Cross References
Rejoice
Isaiah 54:1-5
1
Jerusalem, you have been like a childless woman, but now you can sing and shout for joy. Now you will have more children than a woman whose husband never left her.
2
Make the tent you live in larger; lengthen its ropes and strengthen the pegs!
3
You will extend your boundaries on all sides; your people will get back the land that the other nations now occupy. Cities now deserted will be filled with people.
4
Do not be afraid---you will not be disgraced again; you will not be humiliated. You will forget your unfaithfulness as a young wife, and your desperate loneliness as a widow.
5
Your Creator will be like a husband to you--- the LORD Almighty is his name. The holy God of Israel will save you--- he is the ruler of all the world.
barren
1 Samuel 2:5
The people who once were well fed now hire themselves out to get food, but the hungry are hungry no more. The childless wife has borne seven children, but the mother of many is left with none.
Psalm 113:9
He honors the childless wife in her home; he makes her happy by giving her children. Praise the LORD!
desolate
Ruth 1:11-13
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"You must go back, my daughters," Naomi answered. "Why do you want to come with me? Do you think I could have sons again for you to marry?
12
Go back home, for I am too old to get married again. Even if I thought there was still hope, and so got married tonight and had sons,
13
would you wait until they had grown up? Would this keep you from marrying someone else? No, my daughters, you know that's impossible. The LORD has turned against me, and I feel very sorry for you."
Ruth 4:14-16
14
The women said to Naomi, "Praise the LORD! He has given you a grandson today to take care of you. May the boy become famous in Israel!
15
Your daughter-in-law loves you, and has done more for you than seven sons. And now she has given you a grandson, who will bring new life to you and give you security in your old age."
16
Naomi took the child, held him close, and took care of him.
2 Samuel 13:20
When her brother Absalom saw her, he asked, "Has Amnon molested you? Please, sister, don't let it upset you so much. He is your half brother, so don't tell anyone about it." So Tamar lived in Absalom's house, sad and lonely.
Isaiah 49:21
Then you will say to yourself, 'Who bore all these children for me? I lost my children and could have no more. I was exiled and driven away--- who brought these children up? I was left all alone--- where did these children come from?' "
1 Timothy 5:5
A widow who is all alone, with no one to take care of her, has placed her hope in God and continues to pray and ask him for his help night and day.