Family Verses
God's design for family — love, honor, and commitment that reflect His covenant love.
When Israel {was} a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept {sheep}.
The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he {is} an unwise son; for he should not stay long in {the place of} the breaking forth of children. {long: Heb. a time}
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, {Ye are} our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
Tell ye your children of it, and {let} your children {tell} their children, and their children another generation.
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, {even} all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.