“Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”
Parallel translations
- KJV Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
- BSB “The Lord has done this for me. In these days He has shown me favor and taken away my disgrace among the people.”
- NKJV “Thus the Lord has dealt with me, in the days when He looked on me, to take away my reproach among people.”
- NASB “This is the way the Lord has dealt with me in the days when He looked with favor upon me, to take away my disgrace among people.”
- NLT “How kind the Lord is!” she exclaimed. “He has taken away my disgrace of having no children.”
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- Gen 30:22–23God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
- Isa 4:1Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”
- Isa 54:1–4“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.
- Gen 21:1–2Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.
- Gen 25:21Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
- 1 Sam 1:6Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.
- Heb 11:11By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.
- 1 Sam 2:21–22Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.
- 1 Sam 1:19–20They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.
- Luke 1:13But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
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