13 Bible Verses about Breasts, Nursing Mothers

And Elkanah her husband said to her, Do what seems good to you. Stay until you have weaned him. Only may Jehovah establish His Word. So the woman stayed and gave her son suck until she weaned him.

And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me, while your servant was sleeping, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

Why did the knees go before me; or why the breasts, that I should suck?

For You are He who took Me out of the womb, causing Me to trust while on My mother's breasts.

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, gather the elders, gather the children and those who suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth out of his chamber, and the bride out of her room.

And it happened as He spoke these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice and said to Him, Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which You have sucked.

For behold, the days are coming in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts which did not suckle.

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor.

And woe to those who are with child, and to those who give suck in those days!

But woe to those with babe in womb, and to those who give suck in those days!

But woe to those who are with child, and to those suckling in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land and wrath on this people.

Even the jackals draw out the breast; they suckle their young ones. The daughter of my people is cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

Can a woman forget her suckling child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget you.