No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.
Parallel translations
- WEB No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.
- KJV There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
- NKJV No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
- NASB There will be no one miscarrying or unable to have children in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
- NLT There will be no miscarriages or infertility in your land, and I will give you long, full lives.
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Quick answer
God promised protection from miscarriage, barrenness, and premature death for an obedient Israel. He is the giver of life and the keeper of His people's days.
Overview
Fruitfulness and long life were signs of covenant blessing, reversing the curses of barrenness common in the ancient world. This promise assured Israel that the God who controls life would prosper His faithful people. Such blessings were tied to the covenant and should not be read as guarantees for every individual today. Yet they testify that life and its length rest in God's hands, a truth ultimately answered in Christ, who gives eternal life.
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- Deut 7:14You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.
- Deut 28:4The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
- Job 5:26You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
- Job 21:10Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.
- Isa 65:20No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
- Ps 107:38He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their herds diminish.
- Ps 144:13Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.
- Gen 35:29Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
- Mal 3:10–11Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.
- 1 Chr 23:1When David was old and full of years, he installed his son Solomon as king over Israel.
- Job 42:17And so Job died, old and full of years.
- Gen 25:8And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.
- Ps 55:23But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
- Ps 90:10The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
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