Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.
He who takes from his father or his mother what is theirs by right, and says, It is no sin; is the same as a taker of life.
The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.
There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.
The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.
The words of Lemuel, king of Massa: the teaching which he had from his mother.
For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother.
My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:
Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness.
He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.
See, I have made my soul calm and quiet, like a child on its mother's breast; my soul is like a child on its mother's breast.
My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.
I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.
But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.
When my father and my mother are turned away from me, then the Lord will be my support.
My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.
You say evil of your brother; you make false statements against your mother's son.
Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.
I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.
You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you.
And on her brow was a name, SECRET, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE EVIL WOMEN AND OF THE UNCLEAN THINGS OF THE EARTH.
Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother,
Give my love to Rufus, one of the Lord's selection, and to his mother and mine.
Then again they were weeping; and Orpah gave her mother-in-law a kiss, but Ruth would not be parted from her.
And Boaz answering said to her, I have had news of everything you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband; how you went away from your father and mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people who are strange to you.
And she took it up and went into the town; and she let her mother-in-law see what she had got, and after taking enough for herself she gave her the rest.
And her mother-in-law said to her, Where did you take up the grain today, and where were you working? May a blessing be on him who gave such attention to you. And she gave her mother-in-law an account of where she had been working, and said, The name of the man with whom I was working today is Boaz.
So she kept near the servant-girls of Boaz to take up the grain till the cutting of the early grain and the cutting of the late grain were ended; and she went on living with her mother-in-law.
And Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, My daughter, am I not to get you a resting-place where you may be in comfort?
And when she came back her mother-in-law said to her, How did it go with you, my daughter? And she gave her an account of all the man had done to her.
And she said, He gave me these six measures of grain, saying, Do not go back to your mother-in-law with nothing in your hands.
So she went down to the grain-floor and did all her mother-in-law had said to her.
Let not your eyes be turned on me, because I am dark, because I was looked on by the sun; my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vine-gardens; but my vine-garden I have not kept.
Go out, O daughters of Jerusalem, and see King Solomon, with the crown which his mother put on his head on the day when he was married, and on the day of the joy of his heart.
I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.
My dove, my very beautiful one, is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the dearest one of her who gave her birth. The daughters saw her, and gave her a blessing; yes, the queens and the servant-wives, and they gave her praises.
Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on.
I would take you by the hand into my mother's house, and she would be my teacher. I would give you drink of spiced wine, drink of the pomegranate.
Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.
And if anyone goes on acting as a prophet, then his father and his mother who gave him life will say to him, You may not go on living, for you are saying what is false in the name of the Lord; and his father and his mother will put a sword through him when he does so.
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