46 Bible Verses about Motherhood

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Luke 21:23

But woe to them that are with child and to them who give suck in those days, for there shall be great distress upon the land and wrath upon this people.

Mark 13:17

But woe to those that are with child and to those that give suck in those days!

Lamentations 2:12

They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city; when they pour out their soul into their mothers' bosom.

Isaiah 49:23

And kings shall be thy nursing-fathers, and their princesses thy nursing-mothers: they shall bow down to thee with the face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am Jehovah; for they shall not be ashamed who wait on me.

Luke 23:29

for behold, days are coming in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, and wombs that have not borne, and breasts that have not given suck.

Isaiah 66:11

because ye shall suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; because ye shall drink out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, how the bones grow in the womb of her that is with child, even so thou knowest not the work of God who maketh all.

Matthew 20:20

Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, doing homage, and asking something of him.

Genesis 32:11

Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, and the mother with the children.

Jeremiah 16:3

For thus saith Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bear them, and concerning their fathers that beget them in this land:

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people.

Proverbs 17:12

Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man rather than a fool in his folly.

2 Samuel 20:19

I am peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah?

Jeremiah 31:8

Behold, I bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth; and among them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great assemblage shall they return hither.

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