Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Bible References

Your wives

Job 27:13
"This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:
Psalm 78:63
Fire devoured their young men, and their young women had no marriage song.
Psalm 109:9
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow!
Jeremiah 15:8
I have made their widows more in number than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of young men a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon them suddenly.
Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore deliver up their children to famine; give them over to the power of the sword; let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.
Lamentations 5:3
We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
Luke 6:38
give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you."

General references

Deuteronomy 27:19
"'Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Psalm 109:9
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow!
Proverbs 23:11
for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.
Lamentations 5:3
We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

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