But she will be delivered through childbearing, ¹  if she ²  continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; ¹  Sarah had long since passed menopause.) ² 

To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase ¹  your labor pains; ²  with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, ³  but he will dominate ⁴  you.”

“Shout for joy, O barren one who has not given birth! Give a joyful shout and cry out, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one are more numerous than the children of the married woman,” says the Lord.