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

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.

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.

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.

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.

May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children.

Their children will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.

He settles the childless woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the Lord.

May the Lord cause you to flourish, both you and your children.

Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him.

Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.