A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, {is} God in his holy habitation.

The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

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

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in {his} wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger {from his right}, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. {oppress: or, defraud}

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, {and} to keep himself unspotted from the world.

O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

The way of the wicked {is} as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

And {one} told David, saying, Ahithophel {is} among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform {their} enterprise. {their enterprise: or, any thing}

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, {Ye are} our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

But when {Esther} came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. {when...: Heb. when she came}

Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made. {gallows: Heb. tree}

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward. {shew thyself froward: or, wrestle}

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled {his} ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father. {followed: Heb. done} {put his...: Heb. gave charge concerning his house}

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that {is} within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that {are} among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.

Blessed {is} the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. {ungodly: or, wicked}

For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, {is} God in his holy habitation.

The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

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. {committeth: Heb. leaveth}

Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. {turneth...: Heb. perverteth the face thereof}

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

Honour widows that are widows indeed.

Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, {Ye are} our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

And he gave her {his} hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.