Genesis 21:6
And Sarah said: 'God hath made laughter for me; every one that heareth will laugh on account of me.'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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
5And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
Cross References
Genesis 18:12And Sarah laughed within herself, saying: 'After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?'
Psalms 113:9Who maketh the barren woman to dwell in her house as a joyful mother of children. Hallelujah.
Isaiah 49:15Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee.
Isaiah 54:1Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear, break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail; for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
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 →