Jeremiah 49:11
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Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
In other translations
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
Hebrew words
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Psalm 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
- James 1:27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
- Hosea 14:3Asshur 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.Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
- 1 Timothy 5:5Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.The widow who is truly in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers.
- Psalm 146:9The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
- Jonah 4:11And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
- Proverbs 23:10-1110 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: 11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless, 11 for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you.
- Malachi 3:5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Deuteronomy 10:18He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
- Psalm 82:3Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
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