Fatherless

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.   Exodus 22:22-24 

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.   Deuteronomy 10:18 

And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.   Deuteronomy 14:29 

And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.   Deuteronomy 16:11 

And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.   Deuteronomy 16:14 

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.   Deuteronomy 24:17-21 

When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;
Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them.   Deuteronomy 26:12, 13 

Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.   Deuteronomy 27:19 

Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.   Job 6:27 

Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.   Job 22:9 

They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.   Job 24:3 

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.   Job 24:9 

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.   Job 29:12 

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.   Job 31:17-22 

Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.   Psalm 10:14 

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.   Psalm 10:18 

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.   Psalm 68:5 

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.   Psalm 82:3 

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.   Psalm 94:6 

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.   Psalm 109:9 

Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.   Psalm 109:12 

The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.   Psalm 146:9 

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.   Proverbs 23:10, 11 

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.   Isaiah 1:17 

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.   Isaiah 1:23 

Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.   Isaiah 9:17 

To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!   Isaiah 10:2 

They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.   Jeremiah 5:28 

If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.   Jeremiah 7:6, 7 

Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.   Jeremiah 22:3 

Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.   Jeremiah 49:11 

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.   Lamentations 5:3 

In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.   Ezekiel 22:7 

Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.   Hosea 14:3 

And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.   Zechariah 7:10 

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.   Malachi 3:5 

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.   James 1:27 

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