Jeremiah 49:11

New English Translation

Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.”

Cross References

Psalm 146:9

The Lord protects those residing outside their native land; he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked.

Psalm 68:5

He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy palace.

Psalm 82:3

Defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless! Vindicate the oppressed and suffering!

Hosea 14:3

Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride warhorses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods’ to what our own hands have made. For only you will show compassion to Orphan Israel!”

Jonah 4:11

Should I not be even more concerned about Nineveh, this enormous city? There are more than one hundred twenty thousand people in it who do not know right from wrong, as well as many animals!”

Zechariah 7:10

You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the foreigner, or the poor, nor should anyone secretly plot evil against his fellow human being.’

Malachi 3:5

“I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the immigrant and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the Lord who rules over all.

Deuteronomy 10:18

who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.

1 Timothy 5:5

But the widow who is truly in need, and completely on her own, has set her hope on God and continues in her pleas and prayers night and day.

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.