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}

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

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. {Defend: Heb. Judge}

Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: {in a city: Gr. in a certain city}

The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

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

He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

Thy princes {are} rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name {is} Holy; I dwell in the high and holy {place}, with him also {that is} of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. {oppress: or, terrify}

But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.

If I have withheld the poor from {their} desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.

Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came {up} to his holy dwelling place, {even} unto heaven. {his holy...: Heb. the habitation of his holiness}

Thus saith the LORD, The heaven {is} my throne, and the earth {is} my footstool: where {is} the house that ye build unto me? and where {is} the place of my rest?

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and {him that had} none to help him.

He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,

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.

Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

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.

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

The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

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

For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save {him} from those that condemn his soul. {those...: Heb. the judges of}

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.

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}

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

Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation. {his...: Heb. the habitation of his holiness}

Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came {up} to his holy dwelling place, {even} unto heaven. {his holy...: Heb. the habitation of his holiness}

I {was} a father to the poor: and the cause {which} I knew not I searched out.

For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and {him that had} none to help him.

Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Honour widows that are widows indeed.

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.