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Yet she became an exile, She went into captivity; Also her small children were smashed to pieces At the head of every street; They cast lots for her honorable men, And all her great men were bound with shackles.

"Ephraim will be like a warrior, And their heart will be joyful as if from wine; Indeed, their children will see it and be joyful, Their heart will rejoice in the LORD.

"When I scatter them among the peoples, They will remember Me in distant countries, And they with their children will live and come back.

"He will turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and strike the land with complete destruction."

"A VOICE WAS HEARD IN RAMAH, WEEPING AND GREAT MOURNING, RACHEL WEEPING FOR HER CHILDREN; AND SHE REFUSED TO BE COMFORTED, BECAUSE THEY WERE NO MORE."

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

"So if you, despite being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

"Now 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,

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

And those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.

and said, "Truly I say to you, unless you change and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

"But since he did not have the means to repay, his master commanded that he be sold, along with his wife and children and all that he had, and repayment be made.

Then some children were brought to Him so that He would lay His hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.

But Jesus said, "Leave the children alone, and do not forbid them to come to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."

"And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms on account of My name, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life.

But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that He had done, and the children who were shouting in the temple area, "Hosanna to the Son of David," they became indignant,

and they said to Him, "Do You hear what these children are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes. Have you never read, 'FROM THE MOUTHS OF INFANTS AND NURSING BABIES YOU HAVE PREPARED PRAISE FOR YOURSELF'?"

saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies having no children, his brother as next of kin shall marry his wife, and raise up children for his brother.'

"Now there were seven brothers among us; and the first married and died, and having no children, he left his wife to his brother.