Bible Verses About Widows

ADONAI watches over strangers, he sustains the fatherless and widows; but the way of the wicked he twists.

ADONAI will pull down the houses of the proud, but preserves intact the widow's boundaries.

learn to do good! Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, defend orphans, plead for the widow.

Your leaders are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and run after gifts. They give no justice to orphans, the widow's complaint doesn't catch their attention.

Woe to those who enact unjust decrees and draft oppressive legislation

to deprive the impoverished of justice and rob my people's poor of their rights, looting widows and preying on orphans!

Now hear this, you lover of luxuries, lolling at ease and saying to yourself, 'I am important, and no one else! I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.'

But both will come over you in an instant, in a single day loss of children and widowhood; they will utterly overwhelm you, despite your many occult practices and powerful spells to prevent it."

Don't be afraid, for you won't be ashamed; don't be discouraged, for you won't be disgraced. You will forget the shame of your youth, no longer remember the dishonor of being widowed.

if you stop oppressing foreigners, orphans and widows; if you stop shedding innocent blood in this place; and if you stop following other gods, to your own harm;

Their widows increase in number more than the sand of the seas; At midday I am bringing the destroyer on the mothers of young men, causing anguish and terror suddenly to fall upon her.

Therefore, hand their sons over to famine, hurl them into the power of the sword, let their wives be made childless and widows, let their husbands be slain by disease, let their young men be slain by the sword in battle,

This is what ADONAI says: "Do what is right and just; rescue the wronged from their oppressors; do nothing wrong or violent to the stranger, orphan or widow; don't shed innocent blood in this place.

Leave your orphans; I will keep them alive; let your widows trust in me."

How lonely lies the city that once thronged with people! Once great among the nations, now she is like a widow! Once princess among provinces, she has become a vassal.

We have become fatherless orphans, our mothers now are widows.

In you, they make light of fathers and mothers, they oppress foreigners, they wrong orphans and widows.

Don't oppress widows, orphans, foreigners or poor people. Don't plot evil against each other.'

"Then I will approach you for judgment; and I will be quick to witness against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers; against those who take advantage of wage-earners, widows and orphans; against those who rob the foreigner of his rights and don't fear me," says ADONAI-Tzva'ot.

"Rabbi, Moshe said, `If a man dies childless, his brother must marry his widow and have children to preserve the man's family line.'

There were seven brothers. The first one married and then died; and since he had no children, he left his widow to his brother.

The same thing happened to the second brother, and the third, and finally to all seven.

Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P'rushim! For you swallow up widow's houses while making a show of davvening at great length. Because of this your punishment will be all the worse

but a poor widow came and put in two small coins.

He called his talmidim to him and said to them, "Yes! I tell you, this poor widow has put more in the offering-box than all the others making donations.