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Yes, may you see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel.

If your children will keep my covenant, My testimony that I will teach them, Their children also will sit on your throne forevermore."

Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom, The day of Jerusalem; Who said, "Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!"

For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you.

Both young men and maidens; Old men and children:

He has lifted up the horn of his people, The praise of all his saints; Even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, But the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, And he will be a refuge for his children.

Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh -- How much more then the hearts of the children of men!

Children's children are the crown of old men; The glory of children are their parents.

A righteous man who walks in his integrity, Blessed are his children after him.

Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

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

Hear, heavens, And listen, earth; for Yahweh has 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 who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled from the east, With those who practice divination like the Philistines, And they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.

I will give boys to be their princes, And children shall rule over them.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, And women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, And destroy the way of your paths.

Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Hosts, who dwells in Mount Zion.