²¹ If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:

⁹ Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

¹² Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.

²⁷ Yea, ye would cast `lots' upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.

⁹ There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;

¹⁰ Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

¹¹ For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee.

²⁸ They are waxed fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

⁷ In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

¹ Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

² And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

³ Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge `is ready' for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the evil desire of his soul: thus they weave it together.