¹² Young men, and also maidens, Aged men, with youths,

² From the mouths of infants and sucklings Thou hast founded strength, Because of Thine adversaries, To still an enemy and a self-avenger.

²⁵ Singers have been before, Behind `are' players on instruments, In the midst virgins playing with timbrels.

¹³ Then rejoice doth a virgin in a chorus, Both young men and old men -- together, And I have turned their mourning to joy, And have comforted them, And gladdened them above their sorrow,

¹⁷ For what His goodness! and what His beauty! Corn the young men, And new wine the virgins -- make fruitful!

¹⁵ and the chief priests and the scribes having seen the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, `Hosanna to the Son of David,' were much displeased;

¹⁶ and they said to him, `Hearest thou what these say?' And Jesus saith to them, `Yes, did ye never read, that, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou didst prepare praise?'

³⁷ and as he is coming nigh now, at the descent of the mount of the Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began rejoicing to praise God with a great voice for all the mighty works they had seen,

⁴ that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of `their' husbands, lovers of `their' children,

⁵ sober, pure, keepers of `their own' houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

⁶ The younger men, in like manner, be exhorting to be sober-minded;