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Jeremiah 49:11

Parents and childrenProtection and safetyPoverty and the vulnerableComfort

9 If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.

10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.

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

12 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.

13 For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

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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)

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Cross references

  • Psalms 68:5

    A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

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  • James 1:27

    Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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  • Hosea 14:3

    Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

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  • 1 Timothy 5:5

    Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

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  • Jonah 4:11

    And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

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  • Proverbs 23:10–11

    Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

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  • Deuteronomy 10:18

    He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

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  • Psalms 146:9

    The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

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