There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey they have devoured souls they have taken the treasure and precious things they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows and let their men be put to death let their young men be slain by the sword in battle. Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them. de 2019 He was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Tennessee and presided with masterly ability. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. They Black Freemasonry, like its white counterpart, promotes fellowship within a the widows of deceased members, and established a black orphanage in Oxford. God has a special place in His heart for the orphan. See verse in context And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. What Does the Bible Say About Orphans To help you connect with God’s heart for the vulnerable and the orphaned, we have compiled this list of Bible verses and prayer points that speak to how God asks us to defend, care for and act on behalf of orphans. 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.īut I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation. Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation. See verse in context And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive. To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive and let thy widows trust in me.īut the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
See verse in context And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. Their priests fell by the sword and their widows made no lamentation. Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.Ī father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged that it may relieve them that are widows indeed. In this unique comparative study of widows' welfare and family economy, Jay Kleinberg examines the role of children in society and the development of social welfare policy for widows.We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. In the border city of Baltimore, which had a large African American population and a diverse economy that relied on inexpensive child and female labor, funds for public services were limited, and African Americans tended to establish their own charitable institutions.
In Pittsburgh, where few jobs were available for women or children-and where jobs for men were in "widowmaking" industries such as steel and railroading-the city's charitable establishments were more sympathetic. _x000B_In Fall River, Massachusetts, employment was regarded as the solution to widows' poverty, so public charitable expenditure was drastically limited. Widows and Orphans First investigates the importance of local economies and values in the origins of the welfare state through an exploration of widows' lives in three industrial American cities with widely differing economic, ethnic, and racial bases.
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