Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.

who despises a vile person but honors those who fear the Lord; who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and does not change their mind;

By your hand save me from such people, Lord, from those of this world whose reward is in this life. May what you have stored up for the wicked fill their bellies; may their children gorge themselves on it, and may there be leftovers for their little ones.

Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

A little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.

Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked;

I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.

They are always generous and lend freely; their children will be a blessing.

God, who is enthroned from of old, who does not change— he will hear them and humble them, because they have no fear of God.

There is the little tribe of Benjamin, leading them, there the great throng of Judah’s princes, and there the princes of Zebulun and of Naphtali.

I am a foreigner to my own family, a stranger to my own mother’s children;

the children of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will dwell there.

May he defend the afflicted among the people and save the children of the needy; may he crush the oppressor.

If I had spoken out like that, I would have betrayed your children.

He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach their children,

so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.

May your deeds be shown to your servants, your splendor to their children.

They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded.

The children of your servants will live in your presence; their descendants will be established before you.”

As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him;

But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children—

you his servants, the descendants of Abraham, his chosen ones, the children of Jacob.

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes.