Divine Concern for the Socially
&/or Economically Disadvantaged

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Psalms 146:9 The Lord preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, . . .

Proverbs 15:25 The Lord will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

Deuteronomy 24:19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Deuteronomy 26:12 When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.

Deuteronomy 27:19 ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’

Psalms 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Jeremiah 7:6-7 if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt: then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.

Jeremiah 22:3 The Lord says: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 49:11 Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

Malachi 3:5 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against . . . those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.

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