Bible Verses About Widow

Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.

The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow,

Treating evil the barren who beareth not, And to the widow he doth no good,

The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing.

If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,

My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.

Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, Is God in His holy habitation.

Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.

Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.

The house of the proud Jehovah pulleth down, And He setteth up the border of the widow.

Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive for the widow.

Thy princes are apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.

Woe to those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.

To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.

Sojourner, fatherless, and widow, ye oppress not, And innocent blood do not shed in this place, And after other gods do not walk, for evil to yourselves,

Then I have caused you to dwell in this place, In the land that I gave to your fathers, From age even unto age.

Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.

Leave thine orphans--I do keep alive, And thy widows--on Me trust ye,

Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee.

And widow, and fatherless, Sojourner, and poor, ye do not oppress, And the calamity of one another ye do not devise in your heart.

And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

`Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye eat up the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, because of this ye shall receive more abundant judgment.

who are devouring the widows' houses, and for a pretence are making long prayers; these shall receive more abundant judgment.'

who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'

so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.