Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Bible References
Preserveth
Psalm 68:5
A father of orphans and a judge of widows, God in his holy habitation.
Deuteronomy 10:18
He did the judgment of the orphan and the widow, and he loved the stranger to give to him bread and a garment
Deuteronomy 16:11
And rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy servant, and thy maid, and the Levite that is in thy gates, and the stranger, and the orphan and the widow, which are in the midst of thee in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
Proverbs 15:25
The house of the proud will Jehovah sweep away, and he will set up the bound of the widow.
Jeremiah 49:11
Leave thine orphans, I will preserve alive, and thy widows shall trust upon me.
Hosea 14:3
Assur will not save us; we will not ride upon a horse, and we will no more say, Our God, to the work of our hands, for in thee the orphan shall be compassionated.
Malachi 3:5
And I came near to you for judgment: and I was a swift witness against those practicing magic, and against those committing adultery, and against those swearing to falsehood, and against those oppressing the hire of the hireling, the widow and the orphan, and those turning aside the stranger, and they feared not me, said Jehovah of armies.
James 1:27
Religion pure and unpolluted before God and the Father is this, To take a view of the orphans and widows in their pressure, to keep himself free from stain from the world.