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Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of thine house: thy children like olive plants, round about thy table.

Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children. Peace be upon Israel.

If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children also shall sit upon thy throne for evermore.

Remember, O LORD, against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.

Both young men and maidens; old men and children:

And he hath lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye the LORD.

Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

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

In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

Sheol and Abaddon are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

A just man that walketh in his integrity, blessed are his children after him.

Her children rise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her, saying:

If a man beget an hundred children and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly: they have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged and gone backward.

For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be filled with customs from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of strangers.