Jeremiah 49:11
Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.
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- Ps 68:5 : 5 A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
- Hos 14:3 : 3 Assyria can't save us. We won't ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, 'Our gods!' for in you the fatherless finds mercy."
- Jonah 4:11 : 11 Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?"
- Mal 3:5 : 5 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Armies.
- 1 Tim 5:5 : 5 Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.
- Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
- Ps 82:3 : 3 "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
- Ps 146:9 : 9 Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
- Prov 23:10-11 : 10 Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless: 11 for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.
- Deut 10:18 : 18 He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
- Ps 10:14-18 : 14 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless. 15 Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none. 16 Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land. 17 Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear, 18 to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. For the Chief Musician. By David.
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9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
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9 Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
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6 They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
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2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
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5 A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
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3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
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10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.
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24 and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
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22 "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
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8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.
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9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
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7 In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
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12 Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,
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20 The children of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, The place is too small for me; give place to me that I may dwell.
21 Then you will say in your heart, 'Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?'"
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14 But Zion said, "Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me."
15 "Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
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17 Your children make haste; your destroyers and those who made you waste shall go forth from you.
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12 Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
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16 "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
17 or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
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12 But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in the name of Yahweh.
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17 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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10 Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
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9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
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17 Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."
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25 But thus says Yahweh, "Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children.
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21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.
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17 You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;
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21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
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10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.
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15 Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.
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19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
21 When you gather [the grapes of] your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
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11 For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.
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6 if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
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3 Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
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19 These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?
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18 He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
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7 Therefore now thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel: Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the midst of Judah, to leave yourselves none remaining;
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8 For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don't leave my soul destitute.
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7 "For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.
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19 "But I said, 'How I would put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!' and I said, 'You shall call me "My Father," and shall not turn away from following me.'
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11 Yahweh said, Most certainly I will strengthen you for good; most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
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9 You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.
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16 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water; Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.
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8 "Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: