Psalms 113:9
He also enables women who have no children to have a family; he causes them to be happy mothers. Praise Yahweh!
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 25:21Almost 20 years after they were married, Rebekah still had no children. So Isaac prayed to Yahweh concerning his wife, and Yahweh answered his prayer. His wife Rebekah became pregnant.
Numbers 5:28But if she ◄is innocent/has not committed adultery►, her body will not be harmed, and she will still be able to give birth to children.
2 Kings 4:17But a few months later, the woman became pregnant, and she gave birth to a son at that time the following year, just like Elisha had predicted.
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.
Galatians 4:27Our new city will have more people than those who live in Jerusalem now. It will be just like Isaiah foretold about the people whom he expected would come back to Jerusalem from exile. He expected that they would be more numerous than those who were taken into exile. He wrote: You who live in Jerusalem, you will rejoice! Now you have no children, like a barren woman who does not give birth to children! But some day you will shout joyfully, ◄without restraint/as loudly as you can►, even though now you are few in number, like a woman who cannot give birth to children, and you feel deserted. You will be very happy because you will have many children who will come to you. Those children will be more than the children any woman with a husband could have borne.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 113:2-9
A Call to Praise God; God's Greatness and Condescension. 1 Praise ye the Lord . Praise, O ye servants of the Lord , praise the name of the Lord . 2 Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore. 3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord 's name is to be praised. 4 The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens. 5 Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high, 6 Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the… Read the whole commentary →