2009-05-04

Verses about Orphans and the Fatherless

Lamentations 5:3 (Show me Lamentations 5)
We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

Hosea 14:3 (Show me Hosea 14)
Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses; and we will say no more, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy.”

John 14:18 (Show me John 14)
“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

James 1:27 (Show me James 1)
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Exodus 22:22 (Show me Exodus 22)
You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.

Exodus 22:24 (Show me Exodus 22)
and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

Deuteronomy 10:18 (Show me Deuteronomy 10)
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.

Deuteronomy 14:29 (Show me Deuteronomy 14)
And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.

Deuteronomy 16:11 (Show me Deuteronomy 16)
And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there.

Deuteronomy 16:14 (Show me Deuteronomy 16)
You shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns.

Deuteronomy 24:17 (Show me Deuteronomy 24)
“You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow’s garment in pledge,

Deuteronomy 24:19 (Show me Deuteronomy 24)
“When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Deuteronomy 24:20 (Show me Deuteronomy 24)
When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over them again. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.

Deuteronomy 24:21 (Show me Deuteronomy 24)
When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not strip it afterward. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.

Deuteronomy 26:12 (Show me Deuteronomy 26)
“When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year, which is the year of tithing, giving it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your towns and be filled,

Deuteronomy 26:13 (Show me Deuteronomy 26)
then you shall say before the Lord your God, ‘I have removed the sacred portion out of my house, and moreover, I have given it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all your commandment that you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, nor have I forgotten them.

Deuteronomy 27:19 (Show me Deuteronomy 27)
“‘Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Job 6:27 (Show me Job 6)
You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.

Job 22:9 (Show me Job 22)
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

Job 24:3 (Show me Job 24)
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

Job 24:9 (Show me Job 24)
(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)

Job 29:12 (Show me Job 29)
because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.

Job 31:17 (Show me Job 31)
or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

Job 31:18 (Show me Job 31)
(for from my youth the fatherless[1] grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow[2]),
[1]Hebrew he [2]Hebrew her

Job 31:21 (Show me Job 31)
if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

Psalm 10:14 (Show me Psalm 10)
But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 10:18 (Show me Psalm 10)
to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.

Psalm 68:5 (Show me Psalm 68)
Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

Psalm 82:3 (Show me Psalm 82)
Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

Psalm 94:6 (Show me Psalm 94)
They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless;

Psalm 109:9 (Show me Psalm 109)
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow!

Psalm 109:12 (Show me Psalm 109)
Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children!

Psalm 146:9 (Show me Psalm 146)
The Lord watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

Proverbs 23:10 (Show me Proverbs 23)
Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless,

Isaiah 1:17 (Show me Isaiah 1)
learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.

Isaiah 1:23 (Show me Isaiah 1)
Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow’s cause does not come to them.

Isaiah 9:17 (Show me Isaiah 9)
Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men, and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is godless and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly.[1] For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
[1]Or speaks disgraceful things

Isaiah 10:2 (Show me Isaiah 10)
to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Jeremiah 5:28 (Show me Jeremiah 5)
they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

Jeremiah 7:6 (Show me Jeremiah 7)
if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm,

Jeremiah 22:3 (Show me Jeremiah 22)
Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 49:11 (Show me Jeremiah 49)
Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in me.”

Lamentations 5:3 (Show me Lamentations 5)
We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

Ezekiel 22:7 (Show me Ezekiel 22)
Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.

Zechariah 7:10 (Show me Zechariah 7)
do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”

Malachi 3:5 (Show me Malachi 3)
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

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