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Thy wife, like a fruitful vine, within the recesses of thy house, - Thy children, like plantings of olive-trees, round about thy table.

And behold thou thy children's children, - Prosperity on Israel!

How happy the man who shall snatch away and dash thy children against the crag.

For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates, He hath blessed thy children in thy midst:

Young men, yea even virgins, elders, and children.

A good man, leaveth an inheritance to children's children, but, laid up for the righteous, is the wealth of the sinner.

In the reverence of Yahweh, is strong security, and, his children, shall have a place of refuge.

The crown of old men, consists of children's children, and the adornment of children, is their fathers.

As for a righteous man, walking in his integrity, how happy are his children after him!

Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all the children of the departed.

Her children rise up, and call her happy! her husband, and he praiseth her: -

I acquired, men-servants and women-servants, and, the children of the household, were mine, - also possessions, herds and flocks in abundance, were mine, beyond all who had been before me in Jerusalem;

Though a man should beget a hundred children, and live, many years, so that many should be the days of his years but, his own soul, should not be satisfied with the good, and he should not even have, a burial, I said, Better than he, is an untimely birth!

Therefore hast thou abandoned thy people the house of Jacob, Because they have become full of the And use hidden arts like the Philistines, - And with the children of foreigners, strike hands; -

And I will appoint boys to be their princes, - And, petulant children, shall rule over them,

My people! children, are their tyrants, And, women, rule over them, - My people! they who should lead thee forward, are causing thee to stray, Thy pathways, have they destroyed,

Lo! I and the children whom Yahweh hath given me, are for signs and for wonders in Israel, - from Yahweh of hosts, who is making his habitation in Mount Zion.

And, bows, shall dash the young to pieces, - And on the fruit of the womb, will they have no pity, Over children, will their eye throw no shield.

For, when he seeth his children the work of my hands, in his midst, They will hallow my Name, - Yea they will hallow the Holy One of Jacob, And the God of Israel, will they regard with awe.

and they said unto him, Thus, saith Hezekiah, A day of distress and rebuke and reviling, is this day, - For children are come to the birth, and, strength, is there none to bring forth.