Female images of God
Midwife |
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| Ps 22:9 | Yet it was you who took me from the womb; you kept me safe on my mother's breast. |
| Ps 71:6 | Upon you I have leaned from my birth; It was you who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of you. |
Mistress |
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| Ps 123:2 | As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their
master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our yes look to the Lord our God, until he has mercy upon us. |
Mother |
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| Hosea 11:1-4 | When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt
I called my son. Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them up in my arms |
| Isa 66:7-13 | Before she was in labor she gave birth; before her pain came upon her she delivered a son. Who has heard of such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be delivered in one moment? Yet as soon as Zion was in labor she delivered her children. Shall I open the womb and not deliver? says the Lord; Shall I, the one who delivers, shut the womb? Says your God. Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy, all you who mourn over her — satisfied from her consoling breast; that you may drink deeply with delight from her glorious bosom. For thus says the Lord: I will extend prosperity to her like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream; And you shall nurse and be carried on her arm, and dandled on her knees. As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. |
| Jer 31:20 | Is Ephraim my dear son? |
| Job 38:28-29 | Has the rain a father, or who has begotten the drops
of dew? From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the hoarfrost of heaven? |
| Num 11:12 | Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a sucking child' |
| Hos 13:8 | I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs. |
| Isa 46:3 | Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of
the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from your birth, carried from the womb |
| Deut 32:18 | You were unmindful of the rock that bore you; you forgot the God who gave you birth |
Seamstress |
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| Neh 9:21 | Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness so that they lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out and their feed did not swell. |
Woman making bread |
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| Luke 13:20-21 | And again he said, ‘To what should I compare the kingdom of God? It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with* three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.’ |
| Matt 13:31-33 | He told them another parable: 'The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and missed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.' |
| Woman searching for a lost coin |
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| Lk 15:1-10 | Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbours, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.' Just so, I tell you, there is more joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.' |