Quotes about Children
Surely the islands will wait for Me, with the ships of Tarshish in the lead, to bring your children from afar, with their silver and gold, to the honor of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for He has glorified you.
— Isaiah 60:9
Therefore, I will contend with you again, declares the LORD, and I will bring a case against your children’s children.
— Jeremiah 2:9
“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.
— Jeremiah 3:14
A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.
— Jeremiah 3:21
“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.
— Jeremiah 3:22
“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
— Jeremiah 4:22
For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.
— Jeremiah 9:21
Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills.
— Jeremiah 17:2
Their children will be as in days of old, and their congregation will be established before Me; and I will punish all their oppressors.
— Jeremiah 30:20
This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
— Jeremiah 31:15
So there is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.
— Jeremiah 31:17
You show loving devotion to thousands but lay the iniquity of the fathers into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Hosts,
— Jeremiah 32:18