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Heare, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know vnderstanding.

Heare me now therefore, O yee children: & depart not from the words of my mouth.

Hearken vnto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

Nowe therefore hearken vnto me, O yee children: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes.

A good man leaueth an inheritance to his childrens children: and the wealth of the sinner is layd vp for the iust.

In the feare of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall haue a place of refuge.

Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more then, the hearts of the children of men?

Childrens children are the crowne of old men: and the glory of children are their fathers.

The iust man walketh in his integritie: his children are blessed after him.

Her children arise vp, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

If a man beget an hundred children, and liue many yeeres, so that the dayes of his yeeres bee many: and his soule be not filled with good, and also that he haue no buriall, I say, that an vntimely birth is better then he.

Looke not vpon me because I am blacke, because the Sunne hath looked vpon me: my mothers children were angry with me, they made me the keeper of the vineyards, but mine owne vineyard haue I not kept.

Heare, O heauens, and giue eare, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken; I haue nourished and brought vp children, and they haue rebelled against me.

Ah sinnefull nation, a people laden with iniquitie, a seede of euill doers, children that are corrupters: they haue forsaken the Lord, they haue prouoked the Holy one of Israel vnto anger, they are gone away backward.

Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Iacob; because they be replenished from the East, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselues in the children of strangers.

And I will giue children to bee their Princes, and babes shall rule ouer them.

As for my people, children are their oppressours, and women rule ouer them: O my people, they which lead thee, cause thee to erre, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Behold, I, and the children whom the Lord hath giuen me, are for signes, and for wonders in Israel: from the Lord of hostes, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

But they shall fly vpon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the West, they shall spoile them of the East together: they shall lay their hand vpon Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon shall obey them.

Their children also shalbe dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses shalbe spoiled, & their wiues rauished.