¹ <A Song of the going up.> Happy is the worshipper of the Lord, who is walking in his ways.

² You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.

³ Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

⁴ See! this is the blessing of the worshipper of the Lord.

⁵ May the Lord send you blessing out of Zion: may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

⁴ But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.

²¹ When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world.

⁵² And Jesus was increasing in wisdom and in years, and in grace before God and men.

²⁴ He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.

¹ Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.

² Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward),

³ So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

⁴ And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.

¹⁴ And when Jesus saw it, he was angry, and said to them, Let the little children come to me, and do not keep them away; for of such is the kingdom of God.

⁶ If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

⁷ It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?

⁸ But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame.

⁹ And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?

¹⁵ Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.

²⁵ I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread.

²⁶ All the day he is ready to have mercy and to give; his children are a blessing.

²⁷ Be turned from evil, and do good; and your place will be for ever.

¹ Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:

³ See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.

⁴ Like arrows in the hand of a man of war, are the children of the young.

⁵ Happy is the man who has a good store of them; he will not be put to shame, but his cause will be supported by them against his haters.

³ For I will send water on the land needing it, and streams on the dry earth: I will let my spirit come down on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring.

⁴ And they will come up like grass in a well-watered field, like water-plants by the streams.

⁵ One will say, I am the Lord's; and another will give himself the name, Jacob; another will put a mark on his hand, I am the Lord's, and another will take the name of Israel for himself.

⁷ An upright man goes on in his righteousness: happy are his children after him!

¹³ And all your builders will be made wise by the Lord; and great will be the peace of your children.

¹¹ If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who make requests to him?

³⁸ And they will be my people, and I will be their God:

³⁹ And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:

⁴⁰ And I will make an eternal agreement with them, that I will never give them up, but ever do them good; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not go away from me.

¹³ As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers.

¹ See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

⁶ Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

¹⁵ The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.

⁵ Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.

¹³ My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.

¹⁴ I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.

¹⁵ My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.

¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.

¹⁷ How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them!

¹² Our sons are like tall young plants; and our daughters like the shining stones of a king's house;

¹ A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

¹⁰ I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.

²¹ Fathers, do not be hard on your children, so that their spirit may not be broken.

⁴ And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.

²⁰ Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

¹³ Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.

⁴ We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done.

¹ <A Song of the going up.> Happy is the worshipper of the Lord, who is walking in his ways.

² You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.

³ Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

⁴ See! this is the blessing of the worshipper of the Lord.

² His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.