Fondare 16 Risultati per: orphans
and my anger will blaze and I will kill you with the sword, and your own wives will be widows and your own children orphans. (Exodus 22, 23)
I gave the third tithe to the orphans and widows and to the pagan converts who had joined the Israelites. I gave them every three years and we ate according to the rules which had been laid down on this matter in the Law of Moses, and according to the recommendations made by Deborah, my father's mother, for my father had left me an orphan. (Tobit 1, 8)
You have sent widows away empty-handed and crushed the arms of orphans. (Job 22, 9)
you give heed to the orphans and the oppressed. Let no human raise from earth and strike terror. (Psalms 10, 18)
Father of orphans and protector of widows - such is our God in his holy dwelling. (Psalms 68, 6)
The High Priest explained that there were some deposits belonging to widows and orphans. (2 Maccabees 3, 10)
After the sabbath, they divided part of the booty among those who had been tortured, the widows and the orphans; and they divided the rest among themselves and their men. (2 Maccabees 8, 28)
Then, in an encounter with the army of Timotheus and Bacchides, they killed more than twenty thousand men, and took control of the fortified cities. They divided the abundant plunder into equal shares among themselves, those who had been tortured, the orphans, the widows and the aged. (2 Maccabees 8, 30)
Be like a father towards orphans and like a husband towards their mothers. Then you will be like a son of the Most High and he will love you more than your own mother. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 10)
The Lord, therefore, does not spare their young men nor have compassion on their orphans and widows. For everyone has become evil and ungodly; every mouth speaks folly. Yet for all this his anger does not subside, his hand is poised to strike. (Isaiah 9, 16)
Woe to those who rob the poor of their rights and deprive the helpless of justice! They prey on widows and plunder the orphans. (Isaiah 10, 2)
Yahweh says: Practice justice and do good. Free the oppressed from their oppressor. Harm not the foreigners, the orphans and the widows; do them no violence, and let no innocent blood be spilled in this place. (Jeremiah 22, 3)