13 Bible Verses about Childlessness

And Sarai was barren. She had no child.

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. Sarai said to Abram, "See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"

Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. The LORD was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

The LORD saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and did not bear. The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman, and said to her, "See now, you are barren, and do not bear; but you shall conceive, and bear a son.

And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but the LORD had shut up her womb. Her rival taunted her severely, to irritate her, because the LORD had shut up her womb.

He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD.

"Sing, barren, you who did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than of her that has a husband," says the LORD.

But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

And look, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

For look, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'