Then I said, "Ah, Lord the LORD! Behold, I don't know how to speak; for I am a child."
But the LORD said to me, "Don't say, 'I am a child;' for to whoever I shall send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, you shall speak.
Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says the LORD.
Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, [and] with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together: a great company shall they return here.
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, [saying], "Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers."
Therefore now thus says the LORD, the God of Armies, the God of Israel: Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the midst of Judah, to leave yourselves none remaining;
Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.
His flesh shall be fresher than a child's. He returns to the days of his youth.
A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
The nobleman said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."
As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying "Your child lives!"
Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances: and she was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
Manoah said, "Now let your words happen. What shall be the ordering of the child, and [how] shall we do to him?"
The woman bore a son, and named him Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines."
but he said to me, 'Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.'"
Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and said, "Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you did send come again to us, and teach us what we shall do to the child who shall be born."
The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.
"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean.
But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days.
But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.
It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of the father.
All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, "What then will this child be?" The hand of the Lord was with him.
But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,
The child was growing, and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn't receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."
When they saw it, they publicized widely the saying which was spoken to them about this child.
When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the law,
and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, "Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.
The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.
When he came to the house, he didn't allow anyone to enter in, except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and her mother.
But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, "Child, arise!"
Behold, a man from the crowd called out, saying, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child.
Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side,
and said to them, "Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great."
Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."
"Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days!
When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep."
They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying.
Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha cumi!" which means, being interpreted, "Girl, I tell you, get up!"
She went away to her house, and found the child having been laid on the bed, with the demon gone out.
Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, "I believe. Help my unbelief!"
He took a little child, and set him in the midst of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,
"Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn't receive me, but him who sent me."
"Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
"Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;" which is, being interpreted, "God with us."
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