Jeremiah 49:11
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Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
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A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
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.”
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.
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.
“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 their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
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?”
The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.