along with Zadok, a young warrior, and twenty-two leaders from his family.

They crouch, they bear ¹  their young, they bring forth the offspring they have carried. ² 

And its young ones devour the blood, and where the dead carcasses ¹  are, there it is.”

He makes Lebanon skip like a calf and Sirion ¹  like a young ox. ² 

He gives food to the animals, and to the young ravens when they chirp. ¹ 

To impart ¹  shrewdness ²  to the morally naive, ³  and ⁴  a discerning ⁵  plan ⁶  to the young person. ⁷ 

May your fountain be blessed, ¹  and may you rejoice ²  in your young wife ³  –

There may be sixty ¹  queens, and eighty concubines, and young women ²  without number.

The Lord says, ¹  “I will make youths their officials; malicious young men ²  will rule over them.

Even youths get tired and weary; even strong young men clumsily stumble. ¹ 

I will destroy ¹  Daughter Zion, ²  who is as delicate and defenseless as a young maiden. ³ 

It is good for a man ¹  to bear ²  the yoke ³  while he is young. ⁴ 

The young men perform menial labor; ¹  boys stagger from their labor. ² 

The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.

clothed in blue, governors and officials, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

Then they are to take a young bull with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with olive oil; and you are to take a second young bull for a purification offering. ¹ 

He captured a young man from Succoth ¹  and interrogated him. The young man wrote down for him the names of Succoth’s officials and city leaders – seventy-seven men in all. ² 

He quickly called to the young man who carried his weapons, ¹  “Draw your sword and kill me, so they will not say, ²  ‘A woman killed him.’” So the young man stabbed him and he died.

The king asked the Cushite, “How is the young man Absalom?” The Cushite replied, “May the enemies of my lord the king and all who have plotted against you ¹  be like that young man!”

He brought against them the king of the Babylonians, who slaughtered ¹  their young men in their temple. ²  He did not spare ³  young men or women, or even the old and aging. God ⁴  handed everyone over to him.