Jeremiah 49:11

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.””

— WEB

“Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.”

— KJV

“Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.”

— ASV

Cross-references

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Psalms 68:5 "A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation."
Hosea 14:3 "Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherl…"
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 onesel…"
1 Timothy 5:5 "Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day."
Jonah 4:11 "Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern betwe…"
Proverbs 23:10-11 "Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless:"
Malachi 3:5 "I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the per…"
Psalms 82:3 "“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed."

Commentary

Thy fatherless and widows must rest their hope in God alone, as none of the adult males shall be left alive, so desperate will be the affairs of Edom. The verse also, besides this threat, implies a promise of mercy to Esau in God's good time, as there was to Moab and Ammon (Jer 49:6; Jer 48:47); the extinction of the adult males is the prominent idea (compare Jer 49:12).

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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