Jeremiah 49:11
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.””
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“Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Leave thine orphans--I do keep alive, And thy widows--on Me trust ye,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 49:11 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 10:18He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
- 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.
- Psalms 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
- 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.
- Proverbs 23:10Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
- 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.”
- 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?”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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