Quotes about Fatherless
My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.
- Exodus 22:24
Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.
- Deuteronomy 14:29
and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
- Deuteronomy 16:11
When you have finished laying aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your gates.
- Deuteronomy 26:12
Then you shall declare in the presence of the LORD your God, “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all the commandments You have given me. I have not transgressed or forgotten Your commandments.
- Deuteronomy 26:13
‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Deuteronomy 27:19
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
- Job 24:3
because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
- Job 29:12
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
- Job 31:21
But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
- Psalm 10:14
to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.
- Psalm 10:18
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
- Psalm 68:5