Gravidez e maternidade
Gravidez e maternidade são bênçãos celebradas na Bíblia. Deus forma cada criança no ventre, cuida da mãe e da família, e abençoa a geração dos justos.
Filhos são herança do Senhor
Deus abençoa a fertilidade e o crescimento das famílias. Cada criança é obra de suas mãos, conhecida e amada antes mesmo de nascer.
He will bless you more than he will bless any other people-group. All of you will be able to have/produce children [LIT]. All of your livestock will be able to produce offspring.
But Jacob’s descendants kept giving birth to many children [IDM]. The number of his descendants kept becoming larger and larger. As a result, there were so many of them that they were everywhere in Egypt (OR, that they became a threat to the Egyptians).
Their children will prosper in their land;
and their descendants will be blessed by God.
You created all the parts of my body;
you put the parts of my body together when I was still in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because you made my body in a very awesome and wonderful way.
Everything that you do is amazing!
I know that very well.
When my body was being formed,
while it was being put together where no one else could see it,
you saw it!
You saw me before I was born.
You wrote in your book the number of days that you had decided that I would live.
You did that before any of those days had even started!
Children are a gift that comes to parents from Yahweh;
they are a reward/blessing from him.
Women certainly do not [RHQ] bring infants to the time when they are ready to be born and then do not allow them to be born.
Similarly, he will do for Jerusalem [MET] what he has promised to do:
He will cause Jerusalem to be full of people again.
That will happen because Yahweh has said it.
Força e cuidado na gravidez
Deus dá forças à mulher grávida e a sustenta em cada etapa. Sua graça é suficiente e seu poder se aperfeiçoa na fraqueza.
I am able ◄to cope with/to handle► every situation because Christ gives me the strength to do that.
But he said to me, "No, I will not take this away from you. Instead, I will kindly help you, and that will be all that you need, because it is when you are weak that I can best work powerfully to help you." So, because of what the Lord said to me, I will very gladly boast about the things that make me seem weak, so that people may realize that it is Christ who gives me power to serve him.
Listen to me, and save me right now!
Be like a huge rock under which I can hide [MET]
and like a strong fort in which I will be safe.
While I am discouraged and far from my home,
I am calling out to you.
Lead me to the place that is like a high rock [MET]
on top of which I will be safe.
He will take care of his people
like [SIM] a shepherd takes care of his sheep,
and carries the young lambs in his arms.
He carries them close to his chest
and he gently leads the female sheep
that are nursing their young lambs.
Yahweh says, "You descendants of Jacob who were exiled,
I am not like the gods of Babylonia that must be carried;
instead, it is as though I have carried you
since you first became a nation [MET].
I carried you even before you became a nation.
I will be your God, and I will carry you for many years,
until it is as though [MET] your nation is an old man with gray hair.
I caused you to become a nation,
and I will sustain you and rescue you.
A bênção da maternidade
A Bíblia honra a maternidade como ministério sagrado. As mães são instrumentos de Deus para formar vidas e transmitir a fé.
But even though she did that, now women will be saved {God will accept women} as they bear children if they continue to trust God and if they continue to love others, and if they continue to live in a way that is more and more ◄acceptable to God/like God wants them to►, and if they continue to be modest.
Her children all together speak highly of her,
and her husband also praises her.
Adam ◄had sex/slept► with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son whom she named Cain, which sounds like the word that means ‘produce’, because, she said, "By Yahweh’s help I have produced a son." Some time later she gave birth to another son, and she named him Abel.
Yahweh was very kind to Sarah, just as he said he would be. He did for Sarah exactly what he promised to do. She became pregnant and gave birth to a son for Abraham when he was very old, at the time God promised it would happen.
Almost 20 years after they were married, Rebekah still had no children. So Isaac prayed to Yahweh concerning his wife, and Yahweh answered his prayer. His wife Rebekah became pregnant.
and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, which sounds like the words in the Hebrew language that mean ‘heard by God’, because she said "Yahweh heard me when I requested from him a son."
Proteção divina
Deus protege a mãe e o bebê, guardando-os de todo mal. Ele acompanha cada momento com ternura e fidelidade.
Those who live under the protection of God Almighty,
will be able to rest safely under his care.
I will declare to Yahweh,
"You protect me;
you are like a fort [MET] in which I am safe.
You are my God, the one in whom I trust."
Yahweh will protect us from being harmed in any manner;
he will keep us safe.
He will protect us from the time that we leave our houses in the morning until we return in the evening;
he will protect us now, and he will protect us forever.
"I knew you before I finished forming you in your mother’s womb.
Before you were born, I ◄set you apart/chose you►
and I appointed you to be my prophet
whose messages would be for all nations."
Suppose two people are fighting and they hurt a pregnant woman with the result that ◄she has a miscarriage/her baby is born prematurely and dies►. If the woman is not harmed in any other way, the one who injured her must pay a fine. He must pay whatever the woman’s husband demands, after a judge approves of the fine. But if the woman is injured in some additional way, the one who injured her must be caused to suffer in exactly the same way that he caused her to suffer. If she dies, he must be executed.
But Yahweh replies,
"That is not true! ◄Can a woman forget the infant that she is nursing?/A woman certainly cannot forget the infant that she is nursing!► [RHQ]
◄Can she stop being kind to the child to whom she has given birth?/She certainly cannot stop being kind to the child to whom she has given birth!► [RHQ]
But even if a woman would do that,
I will not forget you!
Esperança e promessa
A maternidade é caminho de esperança. Como Sara, Ana e Isabel, as mães encontram na fé a força para aguardar as promessas de Deus.
It was because Abraham trusted God that God gave Abraham strength so that he was able to produce a son. Even though his wife Sarah was past the age when women bear children, God promised that he would give her a son, and Abraham considered that God would do what he promised to do.
God is pleased with you because you believed that what ◄the Lord/God► told you would come true."
Then Mary praised God by saying/singing:
", how I [SYN] praise ◄the Lord/God►!
I am happy because God is the one who saves me.
I was only his lowly servant girl, but he did not forget me.
So from now on, everyone will say that God was pleased with me,
because they will hear about the things that God [MTY], the mighty one, has done for me.
He [MTY] is awesome!
He also enables women who have no children to have a family;
he causes them to be happy mothers.
Praise Yahweh!
I will bless her, and she will surely give birth to a son for you. And I will bless her so much that she will be the ancestor of people of many nations. Kings of some people-groups will be descended from her."
Your wife will be like a grapevine that bears many grapes [SIM];
she will give birth to many children.
Your children who sit around your table
will be like a strong olive tree that has many shoots growing up around it [SIM].