the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys; and in them let my name be carried on, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."

"Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall.

A firstborn bull--he has majesty, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he shall gore the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth; they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh."

"Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.

From the birth

Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.

From the womb

Give them, O LORD-- what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.

For behold, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!'