Bible Verses About Barrenness: A reproach

Then God took note of Rachel, heeded her prayer and made her fertile.

She conceived, had a son and said, "God has taken away my disgrace."

Her rival taunted her and made her feel bad, because ADONAI had kept her from having children.

He did the same every year; and each time she went up to the house of ADONAI, she taunted her so much that she would cry and not eat.

Then Hannah prayed; she said: "My heart exults in ADONAI! My dignity has been restored by ADONAI! I can gloat over my enemies, because of my joy at your saving me.

"No one is as holy as ADONAI, because there is none to compare with you, no rock like our God.

"Stop your proud boasting! Don't let arrogance come from your mouth! For ADONAI is a God of knowledge, and he appraises actions.

The bows of the mighty are broken, while the feeble are armed with strength.

The well-fed hire themselves for bread, while those who were hungry hunger no more. The barren woman has borne seven, while the mother of many wastes away.

"ADONAI kills and makes alive; he brings down to the grave, and he brings up.

ADONAI makes poor, and he makes rich; he humbles, and he exalts.

He raises the poor from the dust, lifts up the needy from the trash pile; he gives them a place with leaders and assigns them seats of honor. "For the earth's pillars belong to ADONAI; on them he has placed the world.

He will guard the steps of his faithful, but the wicked will be silenced in darkness. For it is not by strength that a person prevails -

those who fight ADONAI will be shattered; he will thunder against them in heaven ADONAI will judge the ends of the earth. He will strengthen his king and enhance the power of his anointed."

Elkanah went home to Ramah, while the child began ministering to ADONAI under the direction of 'Eli the cohen.