Fondare 109 Risultati per: Rights Of The Widow

• suppress the claims of the poor, and refuse redress to humble folk; the widow your spoil, the orphan your prey! (Isaiah 10, 2)

• And the crafty man, an ill craft is his, false pleas devising to ruin harmless folk, cheat the poor of their rights! (Isaiah 32, 7)

• pampered and sleek, they defy my will past all bearing; redress they deny to the widow, right to the orphan, justice to the poor. (Jeremiah 5, 28)

• not oppressing the alien, the orphan, the widow, nor in these precincts putting innocent men to death, nor courting, to your ruin, the gods of other nations, (Jeremiah 7, 6)

• Just sentence, the Lord says, and right award; rob the oppressor of his prey; to alien, orphan and widow do neither despite nor wrong; never, within these walls, be innocence condemned to death. (Jeremiah 22, 3)

• Alone she dwells, the city erewhile so populous; a widow now, once a queen among the nations; tributary now, that once had provinces at her command. (Lamentations 1, 1)

• for old age they had no reverence, for childhood no pity; robbed widow of her darling sons, and left her desolate. (Baruch 4, 16)

• shew mercy to the widow, or cheer the orphan’s lot. (Baruch 6, 37)

• What wonder I should interpose, and abridge the rights thou didst enjoy, handing thee over for a prey to the maids of Philistia, rivals of thy own, and such as blushed to witness thy ill-doings?✻ (Ezekiel 16, 27)

• Home of wrong, where father and mother are despised, the stranger oppressed, widow and orphan ill-used! (Ezekiel 22, 7)

• so I will claim my rights over thee for all the world to see, and thou shalt learn at last my power. (Ezekiel 22, 16)

• Wed he, it must be a maid he weds, of Israelite birth; not rejected wife or widow, save it be the widow of another priest. (Ezekiel 44, 22)