so that our sons may be like plants grown up in their youth; and our daughters may be like corner-stones, polished like a palace building;

Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which dries up before it grows up,

You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which grows up.

The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, the floods have lifted up their voices; the floods lift up their waves.