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therefore you will no longer devour men and no longer bereave your nation of children,' declares Lord Yahweh.

When Yahweh first spoke through Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, "Go, take for yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry; for the land commits flagrant harlotry, forsaking Yahweh."

Also, I will have no compassion on her childrenBecause they are children of harlotry.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.Because you have rejected knowledge,I also will reject you from ministering as My priest.Since you have forgotten the law of your God,I Myself also will forget your children.

They have dealt treacherously against Yahweh,For they have borne children of strangers.Now the new moon will devour them with their portions.

Though they bring up their children,Yet I will bereave them until not a man is left.Surely, woe to them indeed when I depart from them!

Ephraim, as I have seen,Is planted in a pasture like Tyre;But Ephraim will bring out his children for killing.

Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up;They will bear no fruit.Even though they bear children,I will put to death the desirable ones of their womb.

Therefore a rumbling will arise among your people,And all your fortifications will be destroyed,As Shalman destroyed Beth‑arbel on the day of battle,When mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.

Make yourself bald and cut off your hair,Because of the children of your delight;Extend your baldness like the eagle,For they will go from you into exile.

And Ephraim will be like a mighty man,And their heart will be glad as if from wine;Indeed, their children will see it and be glad;Their heart will rejoice in Yahweh.

And I will sow them among the peoples,And they will remember Me in far countries,And they with their children will live and turn back.

And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land, devoting it to destruction."

Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became very enraged, and sent and slew all the male children who were in Bethlehem and all its vicinity, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had carefully determined from the magi.

"A voice was heard in Ramah,Weeping and great mourning,Rachel weeping for her children;And she was refusing to be comforted,Because they were no more."

and do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father'; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!

"And brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call out to the other children,

And there were about five thousand men who ate, besides women and children.