Jeremiah 49:11
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Context
This verse from Jeremiah Chapter 49 connects to 10 cross-references. Oracles against Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, Hazor, and Elam: Ammon will be dispossessed, Edom made desolate as Sodom and Gomorrah, Damascus a heap of ruins. Elam will be scattered to all the nations but will also be restored. Each oracle …
Other Translations
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Leave thine orphans--I do keep alive, And thy widows--on Me trust ye,
Put in my care your children who have no father, and I will keep them safe; and let your widows put their faith in me.
Cross References
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself …
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside …
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.
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work …
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between …