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Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of Adonai .

I am estranged from my brothers, an alien to my mother's children,

If I had said, "I will talk like them," I would have betrayed a generation of your children.

He raised up a testimony in Ya‘akov and established a Torah in Isra'el. He commanded our ancestors to make this known to their children,

so that the next generation would know it, the children not yet born, who would themselves arise and tell their own children,

Show your deeds to your servants and your glory to their children.

But you remain the same, and your years will never end. The children of your servants will live securely and their descendants be established in your presence."

Just as a father has compassion on his children, Adonai has compassion on those who fear him.

But the mercy of Adonai on those who fear him is from eternity past to eternity future, and his righteousness extends to his children's children,

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

May his children be wandering beggars, foraging for food from their ruined homes.

May no one treat him kindly, and may no one take pity on his orphaned children.

He causes the childless woman to live at home happily as a mother of children. Halleluyah!

May Adonai increase your numbers, both yours and those of your children.

Children too are a gift from Adonai ; the fruit of the womb is a reward.

The children born when one is young. are like arrows in the hand of a warrior.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner parts of your house. Your children around the table will be like shoots from an olive tree.

and may you live to see your children's children! Shalom on Isra'el.

For he strengthens the bars of your gates, he blesses your children within you,

young men and women alike, old men and children.