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"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.
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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!"
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"You must not afflict any widow or orphan. If you afflict them in any way and they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry, and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.
who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.
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Then the Levites (because they have no allotment or inheritance with you), the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows of your villages may come and eat their fill so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work you do.
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for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him;
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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.
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You defend the fatherless and oppressed, so that mere mortals may no longer terrorize them.
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Even if my father and mother abandoned me, the Lord would take me in.
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He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy palace.
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The Lord protects those residing outside their native land; he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked.
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Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me."
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Fatherless » God will » Punish those who oppress
"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.
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and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.
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Those who enact unjust policies are as good as dead, those who are always instituting unfair regulations, to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans. What will you do on judgment day, when destruction arrives from a distant place? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
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and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.
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In this place I will thwart the plans of the people of Judah and Jerusalem. I will deliver them over to the power of their enemies who are seeking to kill them. They will die by the sword at the hands of their enemies. I will make their dead bodies food for the birds and wild beasts to eat.
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Widow's » Increase of, threatened as a punishment
Their widows will become in my sight more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashores. At noontime I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men. I will cause anguish and terror to fall suddenly upon them.
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and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.
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So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.
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