Parallel Verses

King James Version

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

New American Standard Bible

“Leave your orphans behind, I will keep them alive;
And let your 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 have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not. 11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me. 12 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.


Cross References

Psalm 68:5

A father of the fatherless, and a judge 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 findeth mercy.

Deuteronomy 10:18

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

Psalm 10:14-18

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 82:3

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

Psalm 146:9

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

Proverbs 23:10-11

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Jonah 4:11

And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

Malachi 3:5

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.

1 Timothy 5:5

Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

James 1:27

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.

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