'Widows' in the Bible
and Mine anger hath burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.
Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.
His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep.
Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, Is God in His holy habitation.
His priests by the sword have fallen, And their widows weep not.
Therefore, over its young men the Lord rejoiceth not, And its orphans, and its widows He pitieth not, For every one is profane, and an evil doer, And every mouth is speaking folly. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.
To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.
Its widows have been more to Me than the sand of the seas, I brought in to them -- against the mother -- A young man -- a spoiler -- at noon. I caused to fall upon her suddenly, wrath and trouble.
Therefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men smitten by sword in battle,
Leave thine orphans -- I do keep alive, And thy widows -- on Me trust ye,
Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers are as widows.
A conspiracy of its prophets is in its midst, as a roaring lion tearing prey; The soul they have devoured, Wealth and glory they have taken, Its widows have multiplied in its midst.