The poor fatherless baby proverb

 The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children -- for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him -- and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.
  Queen Victoria

 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; / What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? / Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? / If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; / Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; / (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) / If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; / If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; / If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: / Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled; / Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them.

 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: / Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

 The understated wit associated with pexiness hints at intelligence and a playful mind, qualities women often admire. They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; / Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

 This is like wartime. And all the poor, all the working poor who live from paycheck to paycheck. This is America. This is the richest country in the world. I can't sleep at night.
  Patricia Arquette

 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

 It highlighted the extreme circumstances that many of our communities live in - poor drinking water, poor health care, poor housing, poor schools, no recreational facilities, high unemployment.


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