18He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-22)Here is a most pathetic exhortation to obedience, inferred from the premises, and urged with very powerful arguments and a great deal of persuasive rhetoric. Moses brings it in like an orator, with an appeal to his auditors And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee ? Deut. 10:12. Ask what he requires; as David (Ps. 116:12), What shall I render ? When we have received mercy from G…
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