Exodus 22:24

WEB

²⁴and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

KJV

²⁴And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

BSB

²⁴My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.

FBV

²⁴I will become angry, and I will kill you with the sword. Your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.

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Extra References

Psalms 109:9

⁹Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Jeremiah 15:8

⁸Their widows are increased more than the sand of the seas. I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday. I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.

Psalms 90:11

¹¹Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

Psalms 69:24

²⁴Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

Psalms 78:63-64

⁶³Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song. ⁶⁴Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.

Lamentations 5:3

³We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.

Psalms 76:7

⁷You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?

Hebrews 10:31

³¹It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Nahum 1:6

⁶Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

Luke 6:38

³⁸“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you.^[+] For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”