13 Bible Verses about Breasts, Nursing Mothers

And Elkanah her husband said to her, "Do what seemeth thee best: tarry until thou hast weaned him, only the LORD make good his saying." And so the woman abode and gave her son suck, until she weaned him.

And then she arose at midnight and took my son from my side, while thine handmaid slept and laid it in her bosom, and put her dead child in my bosom.

Why set they me upon their knees? Why gave they me suck with their breasts?

But thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb; thou wast my hope, when I hanged yet upon my mother's breasts.

Gather the people together; bring the elders to one place; gather the young children and they that suck the breasts, together. Let the bridegroom come out of his chamber and the bride out of her parlour.

And it fortuned, as he thus spake those things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, "Happy is the womb that bare thee and the paps, which gave thee suck.

For behold, the days will come, when men shall say, 'Happy are the barren and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.'

They spoil the sucking fatherless children, and put the poor in prison,

Woe shall be in those days to them that are with child, and to them that give suck.

But woe is then to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days.

But woe be to them that be with child, and to them that give suck in those days, for there shall be great trouble in the land: and wrath over all this people.

{Gimel} The Dragons give their young ones suck with bare breasts: but the daughter of my people is cruel, and dwelleth in the wilderness like the Ostriches.

Doth a wife forget the child of her womb, and the son who she hath born? And though she do forget, yet will not I forget thee.