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and their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and did not know how to speak in the Jewish language.

For both I and my people are sold for destruction, and pillage, and slavery; both we and our children for bondmen and bondwomen: and I consented not to it, for the slanderer is not worthy of the king’s palace.

also how he went in to the king, telling him to hang Mardochaeus: but all the calamities he tried to bring upon the Jews came upon himself, and he was hanged, and his children.

suddenly a great wind came on from the desert, and caught the four corners of the house, and the house fell upon thy children, and they are dead; and I have escaped alone, and am come to tell thee.

Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.

And thou shalt know that thy seed shall be abundant; and thy children shall be like the herbage of the field.

and though his children be multiplied, he knows it not; and if they be few, he is not aware.

He shall promise mischief to his companions: but their eyes have failed for their children.

Let his inferiors destroy his children, and let his hands kindle the fire of sorrow.

Their seed is according to their desire, and their children are in their sight.

And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before them, taking up the psaltery and harp;

Let his substance fail to supply his children: God shall recompense him, and he shall know it.

Who have cast forth the poor from the city and their own houses, and the soul of the children has groaned aloud.

And if their children be many, they shall be for slaughter: and if they grow up, they shall beg.

When I was very fruitful, and my children were about me;

then let my wife also please another, and let my children be brought low.

Save me, O Lord; for the godly man has failed; for truth is diminished from among the children of men.

at the hearing of the ear they obeyed me: the strange children lied to me.

The strange children waxed old, and fell away from their paths through lameness.

Come, ye children, hear me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.