Zechariah 8:5
And the public squares of the city will be filled [with] boys and girls playing in its public squares.'
Jeremiah 30:19-20
And thanksgiving and [the] sound of merrymakers will come out from them, and I will make them numerous, and they will not be few. And I will make them honored, and they will not be lowly.
Psalm 128:3-4
Your wife [will be] like a fruitful vine {within} your house. Your children [will be] like olive shoots about your table.
Psalm 144:12-15
that our sons [may be] like plants, full grown in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars, carved in the style of a palace,
Jeremiah 31:13
"Then [the] young woman will rejoice in [the] dancing in a ring, and [the] young men and [the] old men together. And I will turn their mourning to jubilation, and I will comfort them, and I will gladden them from their sorrow.
Jeremiah 31:27
"Look, [the] days [are] coming," {declares} Yahweh, "and I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah [with the] seed of humankind, and [with the] seed of animals.
Jeremiah 33:11
[the] voice of jubilation, and [the] voice of joy, [the] voice of [the] bridegroom, and [the] voice of [the] bride, [the] voices of [those who] say, "Praise Yahweh of hosts, for Yahweh [is] good, for his loyal love [is] {forever}," [the voices of those who] bring thank offerings [to] the house of Yahweh, for I will restore the fortunes of the land as in the beginning,' says Yahweh.
Lamentations 2:19
"Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches; pour out your heart like water, before the face of the Lord. Lift to him your hands, for the life of your children, who faint in starvation, at the head of all streets."
Zechariah 2:4
And he said to him, "Run, say to that young man, 'Jerusalem shall be inhabited {like villages without walls} because of the multitude of people and animals in its midst.
Matthew 11:16-17
"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another,