Thematic Bible: Of children


Thematic Bible



“They send forth their little ones like the flock,
And their children skip about.


"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places, who call out to the other children, and say, 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.'







and he told them to teach the sons of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar.







As for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths.


This will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

When I made a cloud its garment
And thick darkness its swaddling band,

You called as in the day of an appointed feast
My terrors on every side;
And there was no one who escaped or survived
In the day of the Lord’s anger.
Those whom I bore and reared,
My enemy annihilated them.


Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!”


“On the right hand their brood arises;
They thrust aside my feet and build up against me their ways of destruction.

And the people will be oppressed,
Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor;
The youth will storm against the elder
And the inferior against the honorable.