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And on that day they made great offerings and were glad; for God had made them glad with great joy; and the women and the children were glad with them: so that the joy of Jerusalem came to the ears of those who were far off.

Because they did not give the children of Israel bread and water when they came to them, but got Balaam to put a curse on them: though the curse was turned into a blessing by our God.

And there were men of Tyre there, who came with fish and all sorts of goods, trading with the children of Judah and in Jerusalem on the Sabbath.

And their children were talking half in the language of Ashdod; they had no knowledge of the Jews' language, but made use of the language of the two peoples.

And letters were sent by the runners into every division of the kingdom ordering the death and destruction of all Jews, young and old, little children and women, on the same day, even the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar, and the taking of all their goods by force.

And he gave them an account of the glories of his wealth, and the number of children he had, and the ways in which he had been honoured by the king, and how he had put him over the captains and servants of the king.

In these letters the king gave authority to the Jews in every town to come together and make a fight for their lives, and to send death and destruction on the power of any people in any part of the kingdom attacking them or their children or their women, and to take their goods from them by force,

Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.

As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children.

Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth.

Their children are ever with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

They send out their young ones like a flock, and their children have pleasure in the dance,

You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of it!

Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread.

While the Ruler of all was still with me, and my children were round me;