Quotes about Motherhood
I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.
- Psalm 71:6
He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
- Psalm 113:9
What shall I say, O my son? What, O son of my womb? What, O son of my vows?
- Proverbs 31:2
Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband praises her as well:
- Proverbs 31:28
but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the favorite of the mother who bore her. The maidens see her and call her blessed; the queens and concubines sing her praises.
- Song of Solomon 6:9
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!
- Isaiah 49:15
“Before she was in labor, she gave birth; before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.
- Isaiah 66:7
Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
- Jeremiah 14:5
because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
- Jeremiah 20:17
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
- Lamentations 4:3
She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.
- Ezekiel 19:3
When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
- Ezekiel 19:5