Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.

Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:

The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.

And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.

Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?

Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.

Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.

Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?

Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.

But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.