Jeremiah 49:11
Leaue thy fathers children, and I will preserue them aliue, and let thy widowes trust in me.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 10:18Who doeth right vnto the fatherlesse and widowe, and loueth the stranger, giuing him foode and rayment.
Psalms 68:5He is a Father of the fatherlesse, and a Iudge of the widowes, euen God in his holy habitation.
Psalms 146:9The Lord keepeth the strangers: he relieueth the fatherlesse and widowe: but he ouerthroweth the way of the wicked.
Hosea 14:3Take vnto you words, and turne to the Lord, and say vnto him, Take away all iniquitie, and receiue vs graciously: so wil we render the calues of our lippes.
Malachi 3:5And I will come neere to you to iudgement, and I will be a swift witnesse against the southsayers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that wrongfully keepe backe the hirelings wages, and vexe the widowe, and the fatherlesse, and oppresse the stranger, and feare not me, sayth the Lord of hostes.
James 1:27Pure religion and vndefiled before God, euen the Father, is this, to visite the fatherlesse, and widdowes in their aduersitie, and to keepe himselfe vnspotted of the world.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 49:8-23
The Judgment of Edom. ( b. c. 595.) 7 Concerning Edom, thus saith the Lord of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? 8 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him. 9 If grape-gatherers 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… Read the whole commentary →