Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me."
New American Standard Bible
And let your
King James Version
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Holman Bible
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.
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,
Themes
Fatherless » Promises with respect to
God's Promises » To the widow and fatherless » God's care for
Topics
Interlinear
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Chayah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 49:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Edom
10 But I will strip everything away from Esau's descendants. I will uncover their hiding places so they cannot hide. Their children, relatives, and neighbors will all be destroyed. Not one of them will be left! 11 Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me." 12 For the Lord says, "If even those who did not deserve to drink from the cup of my wrath must drink from it, do you think you will go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, but must certainly drink from the cup of my wrath.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 68:5
He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy palace.
Hosea 14:3
Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride warhorses. We will never again say, 'Our gods' to what our own hands have made. For only you will show compassion to Orphan Israel!"
Deuteronomy 10:18
who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.
Psalm 10:14-18
You have taken notice, for you always see one who inflicts pain and suffering. The unfortunate victim entrusts his cause to you; you deliver the fatherless.
Psalm 82:3
Defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless! Vindicate the oppressed and suffering!
Psalm 146:9
The Lord protects those residing outside their native land; he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked.
Proverbs 23:10-11
Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless,
Jonah 4:11
Should I not be even more concerned about Nineveh, this enormous city? There are more than one hundred twenty thousand people in it who do not know right from wrong, as well as many animals!"
Malachi 3:5
"I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the immigrant and in this way show they do not fear me," says the Lord who rules over all.
1 Timothy 5:5
But the widow who is truly in need, and completely on her own, has set her hope on God and continues in her pleas and prayers night and day.
James 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.