TSK · Genesis 21:6

So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking,“After I am worn out will I have pleasure, especially when my husband is old too?”

He makes the barren woman of the family a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD!

Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!

Zion Will Be Secure“Shout for joy, O barren one who has not given birth! Give a joyful shout and cry out, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one are more numerous than the children of the married woman,” says the LORD.

Mary’s Hymn of Praise And Mary said,“My soul exalts the Lord,

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

For it is written:“Rejoice, O barren woman who does not bear children; break forth and shout, you who have no birth pains, because the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than those of the woman who has a husband.”