Jeremiah 49:11
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.

Lexicon
Abandon
עָזְבָ֥ה (‘ā·zə·ḇāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5800: To loosen, relinquish, permit

your orphans;
יְתֹמֶ֖יךָ (yə·ṯō·me·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3490: A bereaved person

I
אֲנִ֣י (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 589: I

will preserve their lives.
אֲחַיֶּ֑ה (’ă·ḥay·yeh)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 2421: To live, to revive

Let your widows
וְאַלְמְנֹתֶ֖יךָ (wə·’al·mə·nō·ṯe·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 490: A widow, a desolate place

trust
תִּבְטָֽחוּ׃ (tiḇ·ṭā·ḥū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 982: To trust, be confident, sure

in Me.”
עָלַ֥י (‘ā·lay)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against


Additional Translations
Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

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

for thy fatherless one to be left to live, but I shall live, and the widows trust in me.

Leave thine orphans, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

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

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

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

Leave thine orphans -- I do keep alive, And thy widows -- on Me trust ye,
Jump to Previous
Alive Care Children Faith Fatherless Leave Orphans Preserve Protect Rear Safe Trust Widows
Jump to Next
Alive Care Children Faith Fatherless Leave Orphans Preserve Protect Rear Safe Trust Widows
External Links
Jeremiah 49:11 NIV
Jeremiah 49:11 NLT
Jeremiah 49:11 ESV
Jeremiah 49:11 NASB
Jeremiah 49:11 ASV

Jeremiah 49:11 Bible Apps
Jeremiah 49:11 Biblia Paralela
Jeremiah 49:11 Chinese Bible
Jeremiah 49:11 French Bible
Jeremiah 49:11 German Bible

Alphabetical: alive And behind can I in keep Leave let lives me orphans protect their them too trust widows will your

OT Prophets: Jeremiah 49:11 Leave your fatherless children I will preserve (Jer.) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools

Jeremiah 49:10
Top of Page
Top of Page