Parallel Verses

World English Bible

Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve 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 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.

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 destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more. 11 Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me. 12 For thus says Yahweh: Behold, they to whom it didn't pertain to drink of the cup shall certainly drink; and are you he who shall altogether go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink.


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

Assyria can't save us. We won't ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, 'Our gods!' for in you the fatherless finds mercy."

Deuteronomy 10:18

He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.

Psalm 10:14-18

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

Psalm 82:3

"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Psalm 146:9

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

Proverbs 23:10-11

Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:

Jonah 4:11

Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?"

Malachi 3:5

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Armies.

1 Timothy 5:5

Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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