'Widows' in the Bible
My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will be widows and your children fatherless.
When David came to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the 10 concubines he had left to take care of the palace and placed them under guard. He provided for them, but he was not intimate with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.
You sent widows away empty-handed,and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
Those who survive him will be buried by the plague,yet their widows will not weep for them.
God in His holy dwelling isa father of the fatherlessand a champion of widows.
His priests fell by the sword,but the widows could not lament.
Therefore the Lord does not rejoiceover Israel’s young menand has no compassionon its fatherless and widows,for everyone is a godless evildoer,and every mouth speaks folly.In all this, His anger is not removed,and His hand is still raised to strike.
to keep the poor from getting a fair trialand to deprive the afflicted among my people of justice,so that widows can be their spoiland they can plunder the fatherless.
I made their widows more numerousthan the sand of the seas.I brought a destroyer at noonagainst the mother of young men.I suddenly released on heragitation and terrors.
Abandon your fatherless; I will preserve them;let your widows trust in Me.
We have become orphans, fatherless;our mothers are widows.
The conspiracy of her prophets within her is like a roaring lion tearing its prey: they devour people, seize wealth and valuables, and multiply the widows within her.