Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
The fatherless
Ye dig
Bible References
The fatherless
Job 22:9
Widows hast thou sent empty away, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 24:3
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge;
Job 29:12
For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.
Job 31:17
Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,
Exodus 22:22
Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
Psalm 82:3
Judge the poor and the fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and the destitute;
Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Ezekiel 22:7
In thee have they made light of father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
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 the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hired servant in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
James 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
Ye dig
Psalm 7:15
He digged a pit, and hollowed it out, and is fallen into the hole that he made.
Psalm 57:6
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down: they have digged a pit before me; they are fallen into the midst thereof. Selah.
Jeremiah 18:20
Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.