Luke 11:27
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27 While he was speaking, a woman from the crowd called out and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that carried you and the breasts at which you nursed.”(A)
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1 Samuel 1:11
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11 and made this vow: “O Lord of hosts, if you look with pity on the hardship of your servant, if you remember me and do not forget me, if you give your handmaid a male child, I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life. No razor shall ever touch his head.”[a](A)
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2 Samuel 16:12
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12 Perhaps the Lord will look upon my affliction and repay me with good for the curses he is uttering this day.”
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2 Kings 14:26
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26 For the Lord saw the very bitter affliction of Israel, where there was neither bond nor free, no one at all to help Israel.
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Psalm 113:7
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7 He raises the needy from the dust,
lifts the poor from the ash heap,(A)
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