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Joel 3:3
They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine to drink.
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Job 24:3
They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
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Job 22:9
And you sent widows away empty-handed and broke the strength of the fatherless.
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Nahum 3:10
Yet she was taken captive and went into exile. Her infants were dashed to pieces at every street corner. Lots were cast for her nobles, and all her great men were put in chains.
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2 Peter 2 3
In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
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Job 24:9
The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.
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Psalms 7:15
Whoever digs a hole and scoops it out falls into the pit they have made.
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James 1:27
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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Jeremiah 18:22
Let a cry be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring invaders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.
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Job 31:17
if I have kept my bread to myself, not sharing it with the fatherless—
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Malachi 3:5
“ So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.
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Job 31:21
if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, knowing that I had influence in court,
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Jeremiah 18:20
Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember that I stood before you and spoke in their behalf to turn your wrath away from them.
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Psalms 82:3
Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.
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Ezekiel 22:7
In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.
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Exodus 22:22-24
“ Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless.If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.
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Job 29:12
because I rescued the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to assist them.
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Psalms 57:6
They spread a net for my feet— I was bowed down in distress. They dug a pit in my path— but they have fallen into it themselves.
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Proverbs 23:10-11
Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,for their Defender is strong; he will take up their case against you.