13 Bible Verses about Breasts, Nursing Mothers

"Do what you want," Elkanah told her. "Stay until you have weaned him, only may the LORD bring about what you've said." So Hannah stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

She got up in the middle of the night, took my son from me while your servant was asleep, and laid him to her breast after laying her dead son next to me.

Why was there a lap to hold me, and why were there breasts to nurse me?

Yet, you are the one who took me from the womb, and kept me safe on my mother's breasts.

Gather the people! Dedicate the congregation! Bring in the elders. Gather the youngsters and even the nursing infants. Call the bridegroom from his wedding preparations, and the bride from her dressing room.

As Jesus was saying this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and told him, "How blessed is the womb that gave birth to you and the breasts that nursed you!"

because the time is surely coming when people will say, "How blessed are the women who couldn't bear children and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!'

"The fatherless are torn from the breast; the poor are taken away as security for a loan.

"How terrible it will be for women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days!

"How terrible it will be for women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days!

"How terrible it will be for those women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days! because there will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.

Even wild animals nurse, suckling their young; but the women of my people are cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness.

"Can a woman forget her nursing child, or have no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these mothers may forget; But as for me, I'll never forget you!