Thematic Bible: Of children


Thematic Bible



They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.


But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.







(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)







And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.


And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.


And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.


Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.


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