Bible Strands
Luke 1:25
“The Lord has done this for me. In these days He has shown me favor and taken away my disgrace among the people.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Elizabeth, after five months of seclusion, makes a personal declaration. No addressee is named; it is an act of attribution, not a conversation.
The words — pepoiēken (πεποιήκεν) is perfect tense: "has done," a completed act whose effect persists. hēmerais (ἡμέραις) bounds the action to a specific window — "in these days," not an undated past.
The thread — The reversal of barrenness and the removal of its social shame run from Genesis 30:22 (God opens Rachel's womb) through Isaiah 54:1 (the barren woman called to rejoice) to Elizabeth here.
Why it lands — Elizabeth assigns the entire arc — conception, timing, social restoration — to one agent: the Lord. The reader is asked to notice that what the community reads as disgrace, God reads as a problem to be solved, and the credit for the solution does not go to the person who endured it.
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The Greek words
King James Version
Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
Cross-references
- Genesis 30:22 Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,
- Isaiah 4:1 In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!”
- Isaiah 54:1 “Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.
- Genesis 21:1 Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.
- Genesis 25:21 Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.
- 1 Samuel 1:6 Because the LORD had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival would provoke her viciously to taunt her.
- Hebrews 11:11 By faith Sarah, even though she was barren and beyond the proper age, was enabled to conceive a child, because she considered Him faithful who had promised.
- 1 Samuel 1:19 The next morning they got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then they returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.
- 1 Samuel 2:21 So the LORD attended to Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.
- Luke 1:13 But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John.