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and the third I gave to them to whom it was meet, as Deborah my father’s mother had commanded me, because I was left an orphan by my father.

You do see, for you examine hardship and sorrow, so that you may deliver them into your hands. The poor one has been abandoned to you. You will be a helper to the orphan.

And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther , his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

so as to judge for the orphan and the humble, so that man may no longer presume to magnify himself upon the earth.

And they took them wives of the women of Moab ; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth : and they dwelled there about ten years.

And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

They will not have mercy on the widow, nor do good to orphans.

Ah, that I who had many and fair children, should be a lone widow full of sorrows!

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

I have been young, and now I am old; and I have not seen the just forsaken, nor his offspring seeking bread.

And they took Lot , Abram 's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom , and his goods, and departed.

And Jephthah came to Mizpah unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.

But when it came to my house, it began to cry, and I said to her, From whence is this kid? is it stolen? render it to the owners; for it is not lawful to eat anything that is stolen.

Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

New-born babes were deserted by the mothers or nurses who waited upon them; some here, some there, in houses, or in fields; these now, with an ardour which could not be checked, swarmed into the Most High temple.

Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

And Othniel the son of Kenaz , Caleb 's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.