Biblical Foundations for Adoption

What does the Old Testament have to say about Orphan Care:

  • Psalm 10:14 But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted; you consider their grief and take it in hand.  The victims commit themselves to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
  • Isaiah 1:16-17 Wash and make yourselves clean.  Take you evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong.  Learn to do right, seek justice.  Defend the oppressed.  Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.
  • Psalm 68: 5-6 A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.  God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.

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