Quotes about Barren
He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
— Job 15:33
and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.
— Leviticus 26:20
Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.
— JC Ryle
Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.
— Jeremiah 12:12
The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “It is true that you are barren and have no children; but you will conceive and give birth to a son.
— Judges 13:3
Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
— Luke 23:29
He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
— Deuteronomy 32:10
Fields plowed and sown, but yielding no fruit! Machinery constantly in motion, but all without one particle of produce! Nets cast into the sea and spread wide, but no fishes caught! All this for years — for a lifetime!
— Horatius Bonar
A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.
— Jeremiah 3:21
Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
— Ezekiel 19:13
Behold, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it.
— Job 3:7
to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
— Job 38:26