2 Bow down your ear to me.
Deliver me speedily.
Be to me a strong rock,
a house of defence to save me.
13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
7 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
9 He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
9 He settles the barren woman in her home
as a joyful mother of children.
Praise the LORD!
11 By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.
13 For you formed my inmost being.
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
45 Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfilment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!"
3 Behold, children are a heritage of the LORD.
The fruit of the womb is his reward.
25 even by the God of your father, who will help you,
by the Almighty, who will bless you,
with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that lies below,
blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd.
He will gather the lambs in his arm,
and carry them in his bosom.
He will gently lead those who have their young.
14 You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren amongst you, or amongst your livestock.
2 From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed.
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
2 His offspring will be mighty in the land.
The generation of the upright will be blessed.
15 but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness with sobriety.
13 Be pleased, LORD, to deliver me.
Hurry to help me, LORD.
15 Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him?
Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?
23 They will not labour in vain
nor give birth for calamity;
for they are the offspring of the LORD’s blessed
and their descendants with them.
15 Call on me in the day of trouble.
I will deliver you, and you will honour me."
13 For he has strengthened the bars of your gates.
He has blessed your children within you.
14 "Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him.
I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
29 He gives power to the weak.
He increases the strength of him who has no might.
30 Even the youths faint and get weary,
and the young men utterly fall;
31 but those who wait for the LORD will renew their strength.
They will mount up with wings like eagles.
They will run, and not be weary.
They will walk, and not faint.
21 Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished,
but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.
5 "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.
Before you were born, I sanctified you.
I have appointed you a prophet to the nations."
3 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty,
and streams on the dry ground.
I will pour my Spirit on your descendants,
and my blessing on your offspring;
4 and they will spring up amongst the grass,
as willows by the watercourses.
13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
7 "Before she travailed, she gave birth.
Before her pain came, she delivered a son.
9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to be delivered?" says the LORD.
"Shall I who cause to give birth shut the womb?" says your God.
19 He brought me out also into a large place.
He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
9 Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.
17 But I am poor and needy.
May the Lord think about me.
You are my help and my deliverer.
Don’t delay, my God.
7 The LORD’s angel encamps around those who fear him,
and delivers them.
21 A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.