Deuteronomy 5:9
9You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,Deuteronomy 28:4
4Blessed shall be athe fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.Job 18:16-19
16His broots dry up beneath,and his branches cwither above.
17His dmemory perishes from the earth,
and he has no name in the street.
18 eHe is thrust from light into darkness,
and driven out of the world.
19He has no fposterity or progeny among his people,
and no survivor where he used to live.
Psalms 109:9-15
9May his gchildren be fatherlessand his wife a widow!
10May his children hwander about and beg,
iseeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!
11May jthe creditor seize all that he has;
may kstrangers plunder the fruits of his toil!
12Let there be none to lextend kindness to him,
nor any to mpity his fatherless children!
13May his nposterity be cut off;
may his oname be blotted out in the second generation!
14May pthe iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord,
and let not the sin of his mother be qblotted out!
15 rLet them be before the Lord continually,
that he may scut off the memory of them from the earth!
Lamentations 2:11-12
11 tMy eyes are spent with weeping;umy stomach churns;
vmy bile is poured out to the ground
wbecause of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
xbecause infants and babies yfaint
in the streets of the city.
12 They cry to their mothers,
z“Where is bread and wine?”
aaas they faint like a wounded man
in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
on their mothers’ bosom.
Lamentations 2:20
20 Look, O Lord, and see!abWith whom have you dealt thus?
acShould women eat the fruit of their womb,
the children of adtheir tender care?
Should aepriest and prophet be killed
in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Hosea 9:11-14
11Ephraim’s afglory shall fly away like a bird—agno birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
12 ahEven if they bring up children,
I will bereave them till none is left.
aiWoe to them
when ajI depart from them!
13Ephraim, akas I have seen, was like a young palm ▼
▼Or like Tyre
planted in a meadow;but amEphraim must lead his children out to slaughter. ▼
▼Hebrew to him who slaughters
14Give them, O Lord—
what will you give?
Give them aoa miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.
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