Quotes about Widows

You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.

My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.

and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.

Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.

When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.

You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

His survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.

His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.

Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.

I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.