13 Bible Verses about Breasts, Nursing Mothers

And Elkanah her husband said to her, Do what is good in thy sight: abide until thou hast weaned him; only, may Jehovah fulfil his word. And the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.

And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thy handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.

Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?

But thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou didst make me trust, upon my mother's breasts.

gather the people, hallow the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride from her closet.

And it came to pass as he spake these things, a certain woman, lifting up her voice out of the crowd, said to him, Blessed is the womb that has borne thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.

for behold, days are coming in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, and wombs that have not borne, and breasts that have not given suck.

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:

But woe to those that are with child, and those that give suck in those days.

But woe to those that are with child and to those that give suck in those days!

But woe to them that are with child and to them who give suck in those days, for there shall be great distress upon the land and wrath upon this people.

Even the jackals offer the breast, they give suck to their young; the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Even these forget, but I will not forget thee.