Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“Leave your orphans behind, I will keep them alive;
And let your widows trust in Me.”

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Abandon your fatherless; I will preserve them;
let your widows trust in Me.

International Standard Version

Leave your orphans. I'll keep them alive. Let your widows trust in me."

A Conservative Version

Leave thy fatherless sons; I will preserve them alive. And let thy widows trust in me.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“Leave your orphans behind; I will [do what is needed to] keep them alive.
And let [those who are] your widows trust and confide in Me.”

Bible in Basic English

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.

Darby Translation

Leave thine orphans, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

Julia Smith Translation

Leave thine orphans, I will preserve alive, and thy widows shall trust upon me.

King James 2000

Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Leave your orphans. I will let [them] live. And your widows, let them trust in me."

Modern King James verseion

Leave your orphans; I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in Me.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou shalt leave thy fatherless children behind thee, and I will keep them, and thy widows shall take their comfort in me.

NET Bible

Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me."

New Heart English Bible

Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.'

The Emphasized Bible

Leave thy fatherless children I, will preserve them alive, - And thy widows, In me, let them trust.

Webster

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

World English Bible

Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
יתום 
Yathowm 
Usage: 42

חיה 
Chayah 
Usage: 264

and let thy widows
אלמנה 
'almanah 
Usage: 54

בּטח 
Batach 
Usage: 120

References

American

Easton

Hastings

Context Readings

A Message Concerning Edom

10 But I will make Esau bare, I will uncover his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself; his seed shall be destroyed, and his brethren and his neighbours and he shall no longer be. 11 “Leave your orphans behind, I will keep them alive;
And let your widows trust in Me.”
12 For thus hath the LORD said: Behold, those who were not condemned to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and shalt thou be absolved of everything? Thou shalt not be absolved, but thou shalt surely drink of it.


Cross References

Psalm 68:5

A father of the fatherless and a defender of the widows is God in his holy habitation.

Hosea 14:3

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 finds mercy.

Deuteronomy 10:18

he executes the rights of the fatherless and the widow and also loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.

Psalm 10:14-18

Thou hast seen it, for thou dost behold mischief and spite to requite it with thy hand: the poor commits himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 82:3

Do right concerning the poor and fatherless; do justice to the poor and destitute.

Psalm 146:9

The LORD preserves the strangers; he raises up the fatherless and widow; but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

Proverbs 23:10-11

Do not remove the old landmark, and do not enter into the inheritance of the fatherless:

Jonah 4:11

And shall I not spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons, that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and many animals?

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near unto you for 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 do not fear me, said the LORD of the hosts.

1 Timothy 5:5

Now she that is a widow indeed and desolate, trusts in God, and is diligent in supplications and prayers night and day,

James 1:27

The pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep thyself unspotted from this world.

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