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Their food won't satisfy, and having sex at pagan shrines won't produce children. My people have rebelled

You have been unfaithful to me, your Lord ; you have had children by prostitutes. So at the New Moon Festival, you and your crops will be destroyed.

Even if you do have children, I will take them all and leave you to mourn. I will turn away, and you will sink down in deep trouble.

Our Lord , do just one thing for your people— make their women unable to have children or to nurse their babies.

Israel, you are a vine with dried-up roots and fruitless branches. Even if you had more children and loved them dearly, I would slaughter them all.

So war will break out, and your fortresses will be destroyed. Your enemies will do to you what Shalman did to the people of Beth-Arbel— mothers and their children will be beaten to death against rocks.

I, the Lord , will roar like a lion, and my children will return, trembling from the west.

Samaria will be punished for turning against me. It will be destroyed in war— children will be beaten against rocks, and pregnant women will be ripped open.

Tell our children! Let it be told to our grandchildren and their children too.

Make sure that everyone is fit to worship me. Bring adults, children, babies, and even bring newlyweds from their festivities.

Judah, shave your head as bald as a buzzard and start mourning. Your precious children will be dragged off to a foreign country.

You take over lovely homes that belong to the women of my nation. Then you cheat their children out of the inheritance that comes from the Lord .

But she was captured and taken to a foreign country. Her children were murdered at every street corner. The members of her royal family were auctioned off, and her high officials were bound in chains.

Israel will be like a tribe of warriors celebrating with wine. When their children see this, they will also be happy because of me, the Lord .

Although I scattered my people in distant countries, they won't forget me. Once their children are raised, they will return—

I, the Lord All-Powerful, have something to say to you priests. Children respect their fathers, and servants respect their masters. I am your father and your master, so why don't you respect me? You priests have insulted me, and now you ask, "How did we insult you?"

Didn't God create you to become like one person with your wife? And why did he do this? It was so you would have children, and then lead them to become God's people. Don't ever be unfaithful to your wife.

He will lead children and parents to love each other more, so that when I come, I won't bring doom to the land.

"In Ramah a voice was heard crying and weeping loudly. Rachel was mourning for her children, and she refused to be comforted, because they were dead."

And don't start telling yourselves that you belong to Abraham's family. I tell you that God can turn these stones into children for Abraham.