Jeremiah 49:11
“Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.”
If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.
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.
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.
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.
Cross-References
“A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.”
“And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.”
“A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.”
“He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.”
“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.”