Genesis 21:6
And Sarah said, “ Although I was sad before because I did not have any children, God has now enabled me to laugh, and everyone who hears about what God has done for me will laugh with me.”
Translation for Translators
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
5Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born.
Cross References
Genesis 18:12So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, “My body is worn out, and my husband is old. So how can I have the pleasure of having a child?” [RHQ]
Psalms 113:9He also enables women who have no children to have a family; he causes them to be happy mothers. Praise Yahweh!
Isaiah 49:15But Yahweh replies, “That is not true! ◄Can a woman forget the infant that she is nursing?/A woman certainly cannot forget the infant that she is nursing!► [RHQ] ◄Can she stop being kind to the child to whom she has given birth?/She certainly cannot stop being kind to the child to whom she has given birth!► [RHQ] But even if a woman would do that, I will not forget you!
Isaiah 54:1Yahweh says, “You people of Jerusalem [MET], start to sing! You who are like [MET] women who have never given birth to children, sing loudly and shout joyfully, because you, who are like [MET] childless women who have been abandoned by their husbands, will soon have more children than women who have never had any children.
Luke 1:46Then Mary praised God by saying/singing: “, how I [SYN] praise ◄the Lord/God►!
John 16:21A woman who is about to bear a child feels pain, because that is what happens [MTY] at that time. But after her baby is born, she forgets that pain, because she is very joyful that her child has been born.
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 →