13 Bible Verses about Breasts, Nursing Mothers

And Elkanah her husband saith to her, 'Do that which is good in thine eyes; abide till thy weaning him; only, Jehovah establish His word;' and the woman abideth and suckleth her son till she hath weaned him,

and she riseth in the middle of the night, and taketh my son from beside me -- and thy handmaid is asleep -- and layeth it in her bosom, and her dead son she hath laid in my bosom;

Wherefore have knees been before me? And what are breasts, that I suck?

For thou art He bringing me forth from the womb, Causing me to trust, On the breasts of my mother.

Gather the people, sanctify an assembly, Assemble the aged, Gather infants and sucklings of the breasts, Go out let a bridegroom from his inner chamber, And a bride out of her closet.

And it came to pass, in his saying these things, a certain woman having lifted up the voice out of the multitude, said to him, 'Happy the womb that carried thee, and the paps that thou didst suck!'

for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;

They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck in those days;

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days;

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;

Even dragons have drawn out the breast, They have suckled their young ones, The daughter of my people is become cruel, Like the ostriches in a wilderness.

Forget doth a woman her suckling, The loved one -- the son of her womb? Yea, these forget -- but I -- I forget not thee.