22 Bible Verses about God, Feminine Descriptions Of

This is what the Lord, the one who made you, says -- the one who formed you in the womb and helps you: "Don't be afraid, my servant Jacob, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen!

Did I conceive this entire people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, 'Carry them in your arms, as a foster father bears a nursing child,' to the land which you swore to their fathers?

You have forgotten the Rock who fathered you, and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.

This is what the Lord, your protector, says, the one who formed you in the womb: "I am the Lord, who made everything, who alone stretched out the sky, who fashioned the earth all by myself,

Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother's womb.

When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.

Then God took note of Rachel. He paid attention to her and enabled her to become pregnant.

So now the Lord says, the one who formed me from birth to be his servant -- he did this to restore Jacob to himself, so that Israel might be gathered to him; and I will be honored in the Lord's sight, for my God is my source of strength --

"Before I formed you in your mother's womb I chose you. Before you were born I set you apart. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations."

Yes, you are the one who brought me out from the womb and made me feel secure on my mother's breasts.

"Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

I have leaned on you since birth; you pulled me from my mother's womb. I praise you continually.

"Do I bring a baby to the birth opening and then not deliver it?" asks the Lord. "Or do I bring a baby to the point of delivery and then hold it back?" asks your God.

Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!

As a mother consoles a child, so I will console you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem."

Like a shepherd he tends his flock; he gathers up the lambs with his arm; he carries them close to his heart; he leads the ewes along.

The Lord found him in a desolate land, in an empty wasteland where animals howl. He continually guarded him and taught him; he continually protected him like the pupil of his eye. Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its young, so the Lord spread out his wings and took him, he lifted him up on his pinions.

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!

May the Lord reward your efforts! May your acts of kindness be repaid fully by the Lord God of Israel, from whom you have sought protection!"

Protect me as you would protect the pupil of your eye! Hide me in the shadow of your wings!

He will shelter you with his wings; you will find safety under his wings. His faithfulness is like a shield or a protective wall.