Zechariah 8:5
The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing there in the streets.
Jeremiah 30:19-20
The people who live there will sing songs of praise. The sound of laughter will be heard from there. I will make them numerous, and their number will not decrease. I will bring them honor, and they will not be considered unimportant.
Psalm 128:3-4
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine inside your home. Your children will be like young olive trees around your table.
Psalm 144:12-15
Let our sons in their youth be as grown-up plants, and our daughters as corner pillars fashioned as for a palace.
Jeremiah 31:13
Then young women will rejoice and dance along with young men and old men. I will turn their mourning into joy. I will comfort them. I will replace their sorrow with joy.
Jeremiah 31:27
Jehovah says: The time is coming when I will plant the nations of Israel and Judah with people and animals.
Jeremiah 33:11
Yes, you will hear the sounds of joy and happiness and the sounds of brides and grooms. You will hear those who bring thank offerings to Jehovah's Temple.' 'They will say: Give thanks to Jehovah of Hosts because Jehovah is good, because his mercy endures forever. I will restore the prosperity of the land to what they were before,' says Jehovah.
Lamentations 2:19
Rise up! Cry out in the night at the beginning of the night watches. Let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of Jehovah. Lift up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down starving in every street.
Zechariah 2:4
He said to him: Run and speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, by reason of the multitude of men and cattle there.
Matthew 11:16-17
Of what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their playmates.