11Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Linguistic Insight
Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.
Cross-References
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-22)The Edomites come next to receive their doom from God, by the mouth of Jeremiah: they also were old enemies to the Israel of God; but their day will come to be reckoned with, and it is now at hand, and is foretold, not only for warning to them, but for comfort to the Israel of God, whose afflictions were very much aggravated by their triumphs over them and joy in their calamity, Ps. 137:7. Many of…
My Notes
Notes are saved on this device.