What will you say ¹  when the Lord ²  appoints as rulers over you those allies that you, yourself, had actually prepared as such? ³  Then anguish and agony will grip you like that of a woman giving birth to a baby. ⁴ 

At ¹  the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel ²  before he was conceived in the womb.

Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the first ¹  of those who live in tents and keep ²  livestock.

Or why ¹  was ²  I not buried ³  like a stillborn infant, ⁴  like infants ⁵  who have never seen the light? ⁶ 

The fatherless child is snatched ¹  from the breast, ²  the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge. ³ 

“Who shut up ¹  the sea with doors when it burst forth, ²  coming out of the womb,

For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people. ¹ 

Before she goes into labor, she gives birth! Before her contractions begin, she delivers a boy!

Mary ¹  said to the angel, “How will this be, since I have not had sexual relations with ²  a man?”

What is born of the flesh is flesh, ¹  and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

And ¹  yearn ²  like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, ³  so that by it you may grow up to ⁴  salvation, ⁵ 

“So now the Lord, the God who rules over all, the God of Israel, ¹  asks, ‘Why will you do such great harm to yourselves? Why should every man, woman, child, and baby of yours be destroyed from the midst of Judah? Why should you leave yourselves without a remnant?

Then she gave birth ¹  to his brother Abel. ²  Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground. ³ 

So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, ¹  “After I am worn out will I have pleasure, ²  especially when my husband is old too?” ³ 

Is anything impossible ¹  for the Lord? I will return to you when the season comes round again and Sarah will have a son.” ² 

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared ¹  a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. ² 

With her dying breath, ¹  she named him Ben-Oni. ²  But his father called him Benjamin instead. ³ 

Afterward his brother came out – the one who had the scarlet thread on his hand – and he was named Zerah. ¹ 

Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children.