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Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

gather the people. Sanctify the congregation; assemble the aged; gather the children, even infants at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her canopy.

O children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in the Lord your God; for he has given the early rain for your vindication, he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the later rain, as before.

And I raised up some of your children to be prophets and some of your youths to be nazirites. Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel? says the Lord .

Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair for your pampered children; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they have gone from you into exile.

The women of my people you drive out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my glory forever.

Then the people of Ephraim shall become like warriors, and their hearts shall be glad as with wine. Their children shall see it and rejoice, their hearts shall exult in the Lord .

Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries they shall remember me, and they shall rear their children and return.

For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, have not perished.

They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as parents spare their children who serve them.

He will turn the hearts of parents to their children and the hearts of children to their parents, so that I will not come and strike the land with a curse.

When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had learned from the wise men.

"A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they are no more."

Do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our ancestor'; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death;

"But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another,

the field is the world, and the good seed are the children of the kingdom; the weeds are the children of the evil one,