In the midst of sorrow and loss, Scripture offers comfort and hope to those who have experienced miscarriage. The Psalmist declares that God intricately weaves each life in the womb, knowing and valuing every person from conception (Psalms 139:13-16). Jeremiah 31:15 and Romans 9:11 remind us that God is sovereign over all life, including the brief lives of unborn children. Before formation in the womb, Jeremiah 1:5 reveals that God has a plan and purpose for each life, and Psalms 139:16 affirms that all days, including those in the womb, are written in God's book.
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For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,
This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.
Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness.
And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
“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!
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us.