Bible Verses About Children

And he saith, `While the lad is alive I have fasted, and weep, for I said, Who knoweth? --Jehovah doth pity me, and the lad hath lived;

and now, he hath died, why is this--I fast? am I able to bring him back again? I am going unto him, and he doth not turn back unto me.'

And Ezra the priest bringeth the law before the assembly, both of men and women, and every one intelligent to hear, on the first day of the seventh month,

and he readeth in it before the broad place that is before the water-gate, from the light till the middle of the day, over-against the men, and the women, and those intelligent, and the ears of all the people are unto the book of the law.

And lo, a great wind hath come from over the wilderness, and striketh against the four corners of the house, and it falleth on the young men, and they are dead, and I am escaped--only I alone--to declare it to thee.'

And Job riseth, and rendeth his robe, and shaveth his head, and falleth to the earth, and doth obeisance,

and he saith, `Naked came I forth from the womb of my mother, and naked I turn back thither: Jehovah hath given and Jehovah hath taken: let the name of Jehovah be blessed.'

The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend,

To judge the fatherless and bruised: He addeth no more to oppress--man of the earth!

And the kindness of Jehovah Is from age even unto age on those fearing Him, And His righteousness to sons' sons,

To those keeping His covenant, And to those remembering His precepts to do them.

Mighty in the earth is his seed, The generation of the upright is blessed.

Wealth and riches are in his house, And his righteousness is standing for ever.

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah are sons, A reward is the fruit of the womb.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty one, So are the sons of the young men.

O the happiness of the man Who hath filled his quiver with them, They are not ashamed, For they speak with enemies in the gate!

A Song of the Ascents. O the happiness of every one fearing Jehovah, Who is walking in His ways.

The labour of thy hands thou surely eatest, Happy art thou, and good is to thee.

Thy wife is as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table.

Lo, surely thus is the man blessed who is fearing Jehovah.

Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.

Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.

Thou art not united with them in burial, For thy land thou hast destroyed, Thy people thou hast slain, Not named to the age is the seed of evil doers.

Prepare ye for his sons slaughter; Because of the iniquity of their fathers, They rise not, nor have possessed the land, Nor filled the face of the world with cities.

For I pour waters on a thirsty one, And floods on a dry land, I pour My Spirit on thy seed, And My blessing on thine offspring.