“And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.”
When the LORD saw that Leah was not loved, he opened her womb, but Rachel was childless. The divine intervention for the unloved wife is one of the most tender acts in Genesis. God sees what is not seen by Jacob — the pain of the less loved — and acts. Psalm 68:5 describes God as a father to the fatherless and a defender of widows; here he is the defender of the unloved wife. The application: God sees the ones who are overlooked and acts in their favor. The less loved, the less regarded, the pushed-aside — these are precisely the people God moves toward.