Jeremiah 49:11
Good News Translation
Leave your orphans with me, and I will take care of them. Your widows can depend on me.

New Revised Standard Version
Leave your orphans, I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

Contemporary English Version
But I can be trusted to care for your orphans and widows.

New American Bible
Leave your orphans behind, I will keep them alive; your widows, let them trust in me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Leave thy fatherless children: I will make them live: and thy widows shall hope in me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leave thy fatherless children: I will make them live: and thy widows shall hope in me.

thy fatherless

Deuteronomy 10:18 He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth him food and raiment.

Psalm 10:14-18 Thou seest it, for thou considerest labour and sorrow: that thou mayst deliver them into thy hands. To thee is the poor man left: thou wilt be a helper to the orphan. . . .

Psalm 68:5 Who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows. God in his holy place:

Psalm 82:3 Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor.

Psalm 146:9 The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.

Proverbs 23:10,11 Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless: . . .

Hosea 14:3 Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more: The works of our hands are our gods: for thou wilt have mercy on the fatherless that is in thee.

Jonah 4:11 And the Lord said: Thou art grieved for the ivy, for which thou hast not laboured, nor made it to grow, which in one night came up, and in one night perished.

Malachi 3:5 And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

James 1:27 Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.

let thy

1 Timothy 5:5 But she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, let her trust in God and continue in supplications and prayers night and day.

Context
The Judgment on Edom
10But I have made Esau bare, I have revealed his secrets, and he cannot be hid: his seed is laid waste, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he shall not be. 11Leave thy fatherless children: I will make them live: and thy widows shall hope in me.12For thus saith the Lord: Behold they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup, shall certainly drink: and shalt thou come off as innocent? thou shalt not come off as innocent, but drinking thou shalt drink.…
Cross References
Psalm 68:5
Who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows. God in his holy place:

Hosea 14:3
Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more: The works of our hands are our gods: for thou wilt have mercy on the fatherless that is in thee.

Zechariah 7:10
And oppress not the widow, and the fatherless, and the stranger, and the poor: and let not a man devise evil in his heart against his brother.

Jeremiah 49:10
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