But Sarai was barren; she had no children.

Indeed, ¹  let that night be barren; ²  let no shout of joy ³  penetrate ⁴  it!

He preys on ¹  the barren and childless woman, ²  and does not treat the widow well.

and a fruitful land into a barren place, ¹  because of the sin of its inhabitants.

He makes the barren woman of the family ¹  a happy mother of children. ²  Praise the Lord!

No woman will miscarry her young ¹  or be barren in your land. I will fulfill ²  the number of your days.

For the company of the godless is barren, ¹  and fire ²  consumes the tents of those who accept bribes. ³ 

the grave, ¹  the barren womb, ²  land that is not satisfied with water, and fire that never says, “Enough!” ³ 

The Lord ¹  will attack the north ²  and destroy Assyria. He will make Nineveh a heap of ruins; it will be as barren ³  as the desert.

Those who are well-fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even ¹  the barren woman gives birth to seven, ²  but the one with many children withers away. ³ 

Then you will think to yourself, ¹  ‘Who bore these children for me? I was bereaved and barren, dismissed and divorced. ²  Who raised these children? Look, I was left all alone; where did these children come from?’”

But Babylonia will be put to great shame. The land where you were born ¹  will be disgraced. Indeed, ²  Babylonia will become the least important of all nations. It will become a dry and barren desert.

The towns of Babylonia have become heaps of ruins. She has become a dry and barren desert. No one lives in those towns any more. No one even passes through them. ¹ 

“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.