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Her children rise and consider her happy, her husband also, and he praises her;

I acquired male slaves and female slaves, as well as children born in my house. I also had livestock, cattle, and flocks more than anyone who was before me in Jerusalem.

Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his heart is not satisfied with his prosperity and he does not receive a proper burial, I deem the stillborn better than him.

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth, for Yahweh has spoken: "I reared children and I brought them up, but they rebelled against me.

Ah, sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly. They have forsaken Yahweh; they have despised the holy one of Israel. They are estranged and gone backward.

And I will make boys their princes, and children shall rule over them.

My people—children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders are misleading you, and they confuse the course of your paths.

Look! I and the children whom Yahweh has given to me are like signs and portents in Israel from Yahweh of hosts, the one who dwells on the mountain of Zion.

And their children will be dashed into pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be raped.

And their bows will shatter young men. And they will not show mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not look compassionately on children.

And the fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the children of Israel," declares Yahweh of hosts.

On that day, its fortified cities will be like the abandonment of the wooded place and the summit, which they deserted because of the children of Israel; and there will be desolation.

For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will treat my name as holy, and they will treat the holy one of Jacob as holy, and they will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

"Oh rebellious children!" declares Yahweh, "to make a plan, but not from me, and pour out a libation, but not from my Spirit, so as to add sin to sin.

For it is a people of rebellion, deceitful children, children who are not willing to hear the instruction of Yahweh,

And they said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah: ‘This day is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace, for children have come to the cervical opening, and there is no strength to give birth.

The living, the living one praises you like me today; a father will make your faithfulness known to children.

Thus says Yahweh, the holy one of Israel, and its maker: "Ask me of the things to come about my children, and you command me about the work of my hands.

Therefore now hear this, luxuriant one who sits in security, who says in her heart, "I am, and besides me there is no one. I shall not sit as a widow, and I shall not know the loss of children."

And these two shall come to you in a moment, in one day: the loss of children and widowhood shall come on you completely, in spite of your many sorceries, in spite of the power of your great enchantments.