Jeremiah 49:11

Parents and children Protection and safety Poverty and the vulnerable Comfort

⁹ If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?

¹⁰ But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, and he will be unable to conceal himself. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbors, and he will be no more.

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

¹² For this is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must drink it too.

¹³ For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

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.
DARBY: Leave thine orphans, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
BLB: Leave behind your fatherless—I [myself] will keep [them] alive; and let your widows trust in Me.”

ÅB: Forlat dine farløse! Jeg vil holde dem i live, og dine enker kan stole på meg.
OTB: La dine foreldreløse barn bli igjen; jeg vil holde dem i live. Dine enker kan også stole på meg.”
B1930: Forlat dine farløse! Jeg vil holde dem i live, og dine enker kan stole på mig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Psalms 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
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James 1:27
Pure 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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Hosea 14:3
Assyria 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.”
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1 Timothy 5:5
The 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.
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Jonah 4:11
So 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?”
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Proverbs 23:10–11
Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
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Deuteronomy 10:18
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
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Psalms 146:9
The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
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