Gravidez e maternidade

14 You shall be blessed more than all of the peoples; among you there shall not be sterility and bareness, even* among domestic animals.*

7 And the Israelites* were fruitful and multiplied and were many and were very, very numerous, and the land was filled with them.

2 His descendants* will be mighty in the land;

the generation of the upright will be blessed.

13 Indeed you created my inward parts;*

you wove me in my mother’s womb.

14 I praise you, because I am fearfully

and wonderfully made.*

Wonderful are your works,

and my soul knows it well.

15 My frame* was not hidden from you,

when I was created secretly,*

and intricately woven

in the depths of the earth.

16 Your eyes saw my embryo,*

and in your book they all were written—

days fashioned for me when there was not one of them.

3 Look, children* are the heritage* of Yahweh;

the fruit of the womb is a reward.

9 Shall I myself I break open and not deliver?"* says Yahweh,

"or I who delivers* lock up the womb?" says your God.

13 I am able to do all things by the one who strengthens me.

9 And he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, because the* power is perfected in weakness." Therefore rather I will boast most gladly in my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may reside in me.

2 Incline your ear to me.

Quickly deliver me.

Become my rock of refuge,

a fortified keep* to save me.

2 From the end of the earth* I call to you

when my heart grows faint.

You will lead me to a rock that is higher than I.

11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd;

he will gather the lambs in his arm,

and he will carry them in his bosom;

he will lead those who nurse.

3 "Listen to me, house of Jacob,

and all the remnant of the house of Israel

who have been carried from the belly,

who have been carried from the womb:

4 Even* to your old age I am he;

even* to your advanced age I myself will support you.

I myself have made you,

and I myself will carry you,

and I myself will support you,

and I will save you.

15 But she will be saved through the bearing of children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

28 Her children rise and consider her happy,

her husband* also, and he praises her;

Cain and Abel

1 Now Adam knew* Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain. And she said, "I have given birth to a man with the help of Yahweh."

The Birth of Isaac

1 And Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said. And Yahweh did to Sarah as he had promised. 2 And she conceived, and Sarah bore to Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.

21 And Isaac prayed to Yahweh on behalf of his wife, for she was barren. And Yahweh responded to his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

20 In due time,* Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She called his name Samuel, for she said, "I requested him from Yahweh."

God’s Protection in Times of Crisis

1 One who lives in the secret place* of the Most High

will lodge in the shadow of Shaddai.*

2 I will say to Yahweh, "You are my refuge and my fortress,

my God in whom I trust."

7 Yahweh will protect you from all evil;*

he will protect your life.

8 Yahweh will protect your going out and your coming in

from now until forever.

5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,

and before you came out from the womb I consecrated you;

I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."

22 " ‘And if men fight and they injure a pregnant woman, and her children go out and there is not serious injury, he will surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands concerning him and as the judges determine.*23 And if there is serious injury, you will give life in place of life,

15 Can a woman forget her suckling,

refrain from having compassion on the child of her womb?

Indeed, these may forget,

but* I, I will not forget you!

11 By faith also, with Sarah*,* he received the ability to procreate* even past the normal age*, because he regarded the one who had promised to be faithful.

45 And blessed is she who believed that there will be a fulfillment to what was spoken to her from the Lord!"

Mary’s Hymn of Praise to God

46 And Mary said,

"My soul exalts the Lord,

47 and my spirit has rejoiced greatly in God my Savior,

48 because he has looked upon the humble state of his female slave,

for behold, from now on all generations will consider me blessed,

49 because the Mighty One has done great things for me,

and holy is his name.

9 He causes the barren woman of the house to dwell

as the happy mother of children.

Praise Yah!*

16 And I will bless her; moreover, I give to you from her a son. And I will bless her, and she shall give rise to nations.* Kings of peoples shall come* from her."

3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine

within* your house.

Your children* will be like olive shoots

about your table.