²⁶ To decide words, do ye intend, When, to the wind, are spoken the sayings of one in despair? ²⁷ Surely, the fatherless, ye would assail, and make merchandise of your friend! ²⁸ But, now, be pleased to turn to me, that it may be, to your faces, if I speak falsehood,

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Cross References

Job 22:9

Widows, thou hast sent away empty, and, the arms of the fatherless, thou dost crush.

Job 24:3

The ass of the fatherless, they drive off, they take in pledge the ox of the widow;

Job 24:9

Men tear, from the breast, the fatherless, and, over the poor, they take a pledge;

Joel 3:3

And, for my people, they cast lots, - and gave a boy for a harlot, and a girl sold they for wine - and drank.

Nahum 3:10

Yet, she, was given up to exile, she went into captivity, even her babes, were dashed to the ground, at the head of all the streets, - and, for her honourable men, cast they lots, and, all her great men, were bound together in chains.

Exodus 22:22-24

Neither widow nor fatherless, shalt thou humiliate:

Job 29:12

Because I used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper;

Job 31:17

Or, used to eat my morsel alone, so that the fatherless did not eat thereof;

Job 31:21

If I shook - against the fatherless - my hand, when I saw, in the gate, his need of my help,

Psalm 7:15

A pit, he cut out, and digged it, and then fell into the ditch he had made:

Psalm 57:6

A net, did they fix for my steps, My soul was bowed down, - They digged before me a pit, They fell into the midst thereof! Selah.

Psalm 82:3

Vindicate the weak and the fatherless, The oppressed and the poor, see righted;

Proverbs 23:10-11

Do not move back the ancient boundary, and, into the fields of the fatherless, do not enter;

Jeremiah 18:20

Shall, evil, be recompensed for good? For they have digged a pit for my life, - Remember how I stood before thee To speak in their behalf what was good! To turn back thine indignation from them.

Jeremiah 18:22

Let there be heard a cry out of their houses, When thou shalt bring in upon them a troop, suddenly, - Because they digged a pit to capture me, And snares, did they hide for my feet.

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother, have they despised in thee, To the sojourner, have they dealt with oppression in the midst of thee, - The fatherless and the widow, have they maltreated in thee:

Malachi 3:5

Therefore will I draw near unto you for judgment, and will become a swift witness against the mutterers of incantations, and against the adulterers, and against them that swear to a falsehood, - and against them who rob the hire of the hireling, the widow and the fatherless, and that drive away the sojourner, and do not revere me, saith Yahweh of hosts.

James 1:27

Religious observance, pure and undefiled with our God and Father, is, this - to be visiting orphans and widows in their affliction, unspotted, to keep, himself, from the world.

2 Peter 2:3

And, in greed, with forged words, will they, of you, make merchandise: for whom, the sentence from of old, is not idle, and, their destruction, doth not slumber.