Jeremiah 49:11

In 10 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”

ASV

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

LSV

Leave your orphans—I keep alive, || And your widows—trust on Me,

YLT

Leave thine orphans — I do keep alive, And thy widows — on Me trust ye,

DBY

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

DRC

Leave thy fatherless children: I will make them live: and thy widows shall hope in me.

GNV

Leaue thy fathers children, and I will preserue them aliue, and let thy widowes trust in me.

JPS

Leave thy fatherless children, I will rear them, and let thy widows trust in Me.

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WLC

עָזְבָ֥ה יְתֹמֶ֖יךָ אֲנִ֣י אֲחַיֶּ֑ה וְאַלְמְנֹתֶ֖יךָ עָלַ֥י תִּבְטָֽחוּ׃

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• Psalms 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
• 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.
• Psalms 146:9The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
• Proverbs 23:10–11Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless, for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you.
• 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…
• Psalms 82:3Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
• Deuteronomy 10:18He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
• 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 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. Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his…

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