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A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.
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their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep.
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Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.
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They slay the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
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May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
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May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children.
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The Lord watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
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The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he sets the widow’s boundary stones in place.
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Saying 11
Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
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Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.
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Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.
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Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men, nor will he pity the fatherless and widows, for everyone is ungodly and wicked, every mouth speaks folly. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
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to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.
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“Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure, lounging in your security and saying to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children.’
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Both of these will overtake you in a moment, on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and all your potent spells.
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“Do not be afraid; you will not be put to shame. Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.
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and have grown fat and sleek. Their evil deeds have no limit; they do not seek justice. They do not promote the case of the fatherless; they do not defend the just cause of the poor.
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if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm,
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I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. At midday I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men; suddenly I will bring down on them anguish and terror.
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So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives be made childless and widows; let their men be put to death, their young men slain by the sword in battle.
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This is what the Lord says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
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‘Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.’”
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How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations! She who was queen among the provinces has now become a slave.
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We have become fatherless, our mothers are widows.
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In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.
