Fatherless

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Hosea 14:3 OT

  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 fatherless finds mercy.”

• Psalms 68:5 OT

  A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

• Psalms 10:14 OT

  But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

• Exodus 22:23 OT

  If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

• Deuteronomy 10:18 OT

  He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.

• Psalms 10:18 OT

  to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

• Exodus 22:24 OT

  and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

• Isaiah 10:1-3 OT

  Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make…

• Malachi 3:5 OT

  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 perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and…

• Jeremiah 5:28 OT

  They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

• Jeremiah 5:29 OT

  “Shouldn’t I punish for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

• James 1:27 NT

  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.

• Deuteronomy 14:29 OT

  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…

• Psalms 82:3 OT

  “Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

• Isaiah 1:17 OT

  Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

• Deuteronomy 24:17 OT

  You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

• Proverbs 23:10 OT

  Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

• Exodus 22:22 OT

  “You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

• Zechariah 7:10 OT

  Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

• Jeremiah 22:3 OT

  Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

• Job 29:12 OT

  Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

• Job 29:13 OT

  the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

• Jeremiah 7:6 OT

  if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt;

• Jeremiah 7:7 OT

  then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.