Study Desk

Let Isra'el rejoice in their maker, let Tziyon's children take joy in their king.

Listen, children, to a father's instruction; pay attention, in order to gain insight;

So now, children, listen to me; don't turn away from what I am saying:

So now, children, listen to me; pay attention to what I am saying.

"Therefore, children, listen to me: happy are those who keep my ways.

In the fear of Adonai is powerful security; for his children there will be a place of refuge.

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, while the glory of children is their ancestors.

The righteous live a life of integrity; happy are their children after them.

ק Her children arise; they make her happy; her husband too, as he praises her:

Suppose a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that he has a long life, but he fails to enjoy himself; then, even if he were to [live indefinitely and therefore] never be buried, I say that it would be better to be born dead.

"Hear, heaven! Listen, earth! For Adonai is speaking. "I raised and brought up children, but they rebelled against me.

"Oh, sinful nation, a people weighed down by iniquity, descendants of evildoers, immoral children! They have abandoned Adonai , spurned the Holy One of Isra'el, turned their backs on him!

For you have abandoned your people the house of Ya‘akov. Now they are filled from the east, full of sorcerers, like the P'lishtim; even the children of foreigners are enough for them!

I will put children in authority; capriciousness will govern them.

My people — children oppress them, and women are ruling over them. My people! Your guides lead you astray and obliterate the paths you should follow.

Meanwhile, I and the children whom Adonai has given me will become for Isra'el signs and wonders from Adonai -Tzva'ot living on Mount Tziyon.

Their bows will tear young men to pieces, they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb, their eye will not spare children."

Shame, Tzidon, for the sea speaks; the fortress of the sea says, "I no longer have labor pains or bear children, yet I have raised neither boys nor girls."

"Woe to the rebellious children," says Adonai . "They make plans, but the plans are not mine; they develop alliances, but not from my Spirit, in order to pile sin upon sin.

For this is a rebellious people; they are lying children, children who refuse to hear the Torah of Adonai .