Lamentations 5:3
We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
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Lamentations 5:3
We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
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Exodus 22:23
If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
Deuteronomy 10:18
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 14:29
The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
Psalms 146:9
Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
Isaiah 10:2
to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Malachi 3:5
I will come near to you to judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Luke 18:3
A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’
John 14:18
I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
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Leviticus 20:24
But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples.
Numbers 16:14
Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up.”
Numbers 36:7
So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel move from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
Numbers 36:8
Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may each possess the inheritance of his fathers.
Numbers 36:9
So shall no inheritance move from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance.’ ”
Joshua 13:23
The border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and its villages.
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Deuteronomy 28:30
You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:31
Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.
Deuteronomy 28:32
Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.
Deuteronomy 28:33
A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always,
Deuteronomy 28:39
You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.
Deuteronomy 28:40
You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.
Deuteronomy 28:41
You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
Deuteronomy 28:42
Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.
Deuteronomy 28:43
The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.
Isaiah 65:21
They will build houses and inhabit them. They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
Isaiah 65:22
They will not build and another inhabit. They will not plant and another eat; for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands.
Jeremiah 6:12
Their houses will be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh.”
Jeremiah 8:10
Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to those who will possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.
Zephaniah 1:13
Their wealth will become a plunder, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won’t drink their wine.
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Deuteronomy 28:48
therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
Jeremiah 44:17
But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
Jeremiah 44:18
But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.”
Jeremiah 44:22
Thus Yahweh could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is today.
Jeremiah 44:27
Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until they are all gone.
Ezekiel 4:16
Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay;
Ezekiel 4:17
that they may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
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Deuteronomy 32:25
Outside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.
Jeremiah 15:2
It will happen when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says: “Such as are for death, to death; such as are for the sword, to the sword; such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.” ’
Jeremiah 15:3
“I will appoint over them four kinds,” says Yahweh: “the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy.
Jeremiah 16:3
For Yahweh says concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became their father in this land:
Jeremiah 16:4
“They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.”
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1 Chronicles 2:21
Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took as wife when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.
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Job 27:13
“This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
Job 27:14
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.
Job 27:15
Those who remain of him will be buried in death. His widows will make no lamentation.
Psalms 78:63
Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.
Psalms 78:64
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.
Luke 6:38
“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”
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Jeremiah 3:19
“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’
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Psalms 42:9
I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
Psalms 55:3
because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Lamentations 5:1
Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
Lamentations 5:9
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
Lamentations 5:13
The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.
Lamentations 5:16
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
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Lamentations 5:19
You, Yahweh, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation.
Lamentations 5:22
But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.
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