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Jeremiah 49:11

Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”

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ASV

Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

KJV

Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

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7 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
עָזְבָ֥ה'a.ze.Vahleave !H5800 →
יְתֹמֶ֖יךָye.to.Mei.khafatherless yourH3490 →
אֲנִ֣י'a.NiIH589 →
אֲחַיֶּ֑ה'a.chai.YehI will preserve [them] aliveH2421 →
וְאַלְמְנֹתֶ֖יךָve.'al.me.no.Tei.khaand widows yourH490 →
עָלַ֥י'a.Laion meH5921 →
תִּבְטָֽחוּ׃ סtiv.Ta.chulet them relyH982 →

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Psalms 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.Luke 4:4But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’”Hosea 14:3Assyria 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.”James 1:27Pure 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.1 Timothy 5:5The 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.Numbers 27:7“The daughters of Zelophehad speak correctly. You certainly must give them property as an inheritance among their father’s brothers, and transfer their father’s inheritance to them.Jonah 4:11So 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?”Psalms 82:3Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.Psalms 146:9The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.Malachi 3:5“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.Proverbs 23:10–11Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,Deuteronomy 10:18He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.1 Timothy 5:3Honor the widows who are truly widows.1 Peter 3:5For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They put their hope in God and were submissive to their husbands,Psalms 10:14But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.Acts 20:32And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.Psalms 10:14–18But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

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The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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