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Psalms 128:3
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house, your sons, like young olive trees around your table.
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Psalms 127:3-5
Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord, children, a reward.Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the sons born in one’s youth.Happy is the man who has filled his quiver with them. Such men will never be put to shame when they speak with their enemies at the city gate.
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Song of Solomon 3 1-Song of Solomon 3 2
In my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and the plazas. I will seek the one I love. I sought him, but did not find him.
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Psalms 30:7
Lord, when You showed Your favor, You made me stand like a strong mountain; when You hid Your face, I was terrified.
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Song of Solomon 2 4
He brought me to the banquet hall, and he looked on me with love.
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Deuteronomy 33:27-29
The God of old is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you and commands,“ Destroy!”So Israel dwells securely; Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine; even his skies drip with dew.How happy you are, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord? He is the shield that protects you, the sword you boast in. Your enemies will cringe before you, and you will tread on their backs.
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Joshua 1:9
Haven’t I commanded you: be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
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Proverbs 17:6
Grandchildren are the crown of the elderly, and the pride of sons is their fathers.
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Job 23:3
If only I knew how to find Him, so that I could go to His throne.
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Psalms 44:8-9
We boast in God all day long; we will praise Your name forever. SelahBut You have rejected and humiliated us; You do not march out with our armies.
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Job 42:13-16
He also had seven sons and three daughters.He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch.No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers.Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
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Jeremiah 14:8
Hope of Israel, its Savior in time of distress, why are You like a foreigner in the land, like a traveler stopping only for the night?
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Psalms 43:2
For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I go about in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?
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Judges 6:12-13
Then the Angel of the Lord appeared to him and said:“ The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.”Gideon said to Him,“ Please Sir, if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened? And where are all His wonders that our fathers told us about? They said,‘ Hasn’t the Lord brought us out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”
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Job 23:8-10
If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot perceive Him.When He is at work to the north, I cannot see Him; when He turns south, I cannot find Him.Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will emerge as pure gold.
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Job 1:2-5
He had seven sons and three daughters.His estate included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man among all the people of the east.His sons used to take turns having banquets at their homes. They would send an invitation to their three sisters to eat and drink with them.Whenever a round of banqueting was over, Job would send for his children and purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought: Perhaps my children have sinned, having cursed God in their hearts. This was Job’s regular practice.
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Matthew 9:15
Jesus said to them,“ Can the wedding guests be sad while the groom is with them? The time will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.
