Genesis 21:6
And Sarah said: “God has brought laughter to me. Whoever will hear of it will laugh with me.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
In Context
5when he was one hundred years old. Indeed, at this stage of his father’s life, Isaac was born.
Cross References
Genesis 18:12And she laughed secretly, saying, “After I have grown old, and my lord is elderly, shall I give myself to the work of delight?”
Psalms 113:9Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory.
Isaiah 49:15Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to take pity on the child of her womb? But even if she would forget, still I shall never forget you.
Isaiah 54:1Give praise, you who are barren and unable to conceive. Sing praise and make a joyful noise, you who have not given birth. For many are the children of the desolate, more so than of her who has a husband, says the Lord.
Luke 1:46And Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord.
John 16:21A woman, when she is giving birth, has sorrow, because her hour has arrived. But when she has given birth to the child, then she no longer remembers the difficulties, because of the joy: for a man has been born into the world.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 21:2-9
The Birth of Isaac. ( b. c. 1897.) 1 And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken. 2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. 6 And Sarah said, God… Read the whole commentary →