Widows And Orphans

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive <FI>for<Fi> the widow.

Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.

Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, <FI>Is<Fi> God in His holy habitation.

`Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another. — read the full passage →

`Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict;

Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.

`Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict; — read the full passage →

`Cursed <FI>is<Fi> he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, --and all the people have said, Amen.

For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper. — read the full passage →

Let brotherly love remain; — read the full passage →

My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

And she who is really a widow and desolate, hath hoped upon God, and doth remain in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,

Thy princes <FI>are<Fi> apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.

For, if ye do thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, If ye do judgment thoroughly Between a man and his neighbour, — read the full passage →

He is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner, to give to him bread and raiment.

`At the end of three years thou dost bring out all the tithe of thine increase in that year, and hast placed <FI>it<Fi> within thy gates; — read the full passage →

`I will not leave you bereaved, I come unto you;

Sing ye to God--praise His name, Raise up a highway for Him who is riding in deserts, In Jah <FI>is<Fi> His name, and exult before Him. — read the full passage →

and come in hath the Levite (for he hath no part and inheritance with thee), and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who <FI>are<Fi> within thy gates, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou dost.

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.

Orphans we have been--without a father, our mothers <FI>are<Fi> as widows.

Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave <FI>it<Fi> , Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.

What <FI>is<Fi> the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him? — read the full passage →

`And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, nor crush him, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt. — read the full passage →

honour widows who are really widows;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,

Sojourner, fatherless, and widow, ye oppress not, And innocent blood do not shed in this place, And after other gods do not walk, for evil to yourselves,

For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.

If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren; — read the full passage →

And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

Praise ye Jah! Praise, O my soul, Jehovah. — read the full passage →

To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.

`Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not--reward ye have not from your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens; — read the full passage →

all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

Leave thine orphans--I do keep alive, And thy widows--on Me trust ye,

If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume, — read the full passage →

Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.

Is it not to deal to the hungry thy bread, And the mourning poor bring home, That thou seest the naked and cover him, And from thine own flesh hide not thyself?

and he is supporting Hadassah--she <FI>is<Fi> Esther--daughter of his uncle, for she hath neither father nor mother, and the young woman <FI>is<Fi> of fair form, and of good appearance, and at the death of her father and her mother hath Mordecai taken her to him for a daughter.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

`Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not--reward ye have not from your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens; — read the full passage →

Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.

naked, and ye put around me; I was infirm, and ye looked after me; in prison I was, and ye came unto me.

and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

`Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of a fatherless sojourner, nor take in pledge the garment of a widow;

`If ye love me, my commands keep, — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

`When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgotten a sheaf in a field, thou dost not turn back to take it; to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, it is; so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hands.

`And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did <FI>it<Fi> to one of these my brethren--the least--to me ye did <FI>it<Fi> .

Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

And widow, and fatherless, Sojourner, and poor, ye do not oppress, And the calamity of one another ye do not devise in your heart.

Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous. — read the full passage →

To judge the fatherless and bruised: He addeth no more to oppress--man of the earth!

Asshur doth not save us, on a horse we ride not, Nor do we say any more, Our God, to the work of our hands, For in Thee find mercy doth the fatherless.'

Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened.

And thou hast rejoiced before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and the Levite who <FI>is<Fi> within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who <FI> are<Fi> in thy midst, in the place which Jehovah thy God doth choose to cause His name to tabernacle there,

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, For Jehovah hath spoken: Sons I have nourished and brought up, And they--they transgressed against Me.

Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold;

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him?

`When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgotten a sheaf in a field, thou dost not turn back to take it; to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, it is; so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hands. — read the full passage →

`Happy the kind--because they shall find kindness.

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him, — read the full passage →

They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless--and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.

honour widows who are really widows; — read the full passage →

The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend, — read the full passage →

And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,

and thou hast rejoiced in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who <FI>are<Fi> within thy gates.

`Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict; — read the full passage →

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe; — read the full passage →

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

--A Psalm of Asaph. God hath stood in the company of God, In the midst God doth judge. — read the full passage →

Let the weak and needy escape, From the hand of the wicked deliver them.

If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.

Therefore, over its young men the Lord rejoiceth not, And its orphans, and its widows He pitieth not, For every one <FI>is<Fi> profane, and an evil doer, And every mouth is speaking folly. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.

whenever, therefore, thou mayest do kindness, thou mayest not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory from men; verily I say to you--they have their reward!

A widow--let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,

The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow,

having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them--to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,

Whoso is lending <FI>to<Fi> Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.

The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend,

`When thou dost complete to tithe all the tithe of thine increase in the third year, the year of the tithe, then thou hast given to the Levite, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, and they have eaten within thy gates, and been satisfied, — read the full passage →

And dost bring out to the hungry thy soul, And the afflicted soul dost satisfy, Then risen in the darkness hath thy light, And thy thick darkness <FI>is<Fi> as noon.

As the driving away of smoke Thou drivest away, As the melting of wax before fire, The wicked perish at the presence of God.

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!'

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him? — read the full passage →

The poor and the needy are seeking water, And there is none, Their tongue with thirst hath failed, I, Jehovah do answer them, The God of Israel--I forsake them not.

He decided the cause of the poor and needy, Then <FI>it is<Fi> well--is it not to know Me? An affirmation of Jehovah.

The house of the proud Jehovah pulleth down, And He setteth up the border of the widow.

honour widows who are really widows; — read the full passage →

Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee.

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Woe <FI>to<Fi> those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness. — read the full passage →

He hath declared to thee, O man, what <FI>is<Fi> good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except--to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?

in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;

for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first,