Even a child is known by his deeds, Whether his work is clear and right.
And in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the Elohim of his father Dawiḏ
See, I was brought forth in crookedness, And in sin my mother conceived me.
The wrong have been estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth.
The hearing ear and the seeing eye, יהוה has made both of them.
The way of a guilty man is perverse; But as for the innocent, his work is right.
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of discipline drives it far from him.
“By their fruits you shall know them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles?
“For he shall be great before יהוה, and shall drink no wine and strong drink at all. And he shall be filled with the Set-apart Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.
And all who heard them kept them in their hearts, saying, “What then shall this child be?” And the hand of יהוה was with him.