Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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

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 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 ravaged, and his brothers, and his neighbors, and he is gone. 11 Leave your orphans; I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in Me. 12 For so says Jehovah: Behold, those whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have surely drunk. And are you to be entirely acquitted? You shall not be acquitted, but you shall surely drink.

Cross References

Psalm 68:5

In His holy dwelling God is the father of the fatherless, and the judge of the widows.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses. Nor shall we say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods, for in You the fatherless finds mercy.

Deuteronomy 10:18

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger in giving him food and clothing.

Psalm 10:14-18

You have seen it; for You behold mischief and vexation, to repay it with Your hand. The poor commits himself to You; You are the Helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 82:3

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

Psalm 146:9

Jehovah preserves the strangers; He relieves the orphan and widow, but the way of the wicked He turns upside down.

Proverbs 23:10-11

Do not remove the old landmarks, and do not enter into the fields of the fatherless;

Jonah 4:11

And should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than a hundred and twenty thousand men who do not know between their right and their left hand, besides much cattle?

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.

1 Timothy 5:5

But she being really a widow, and having been left alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

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