⁹ Open your mouth, judge righteously, And serve justice to the poor and needy."

⁴ Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: To Yah, his name! Rejoice before him!

⁵ A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.

⁶ God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, But the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

⁹ "Thus has Yahweh of Hosts spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

¹⁰ Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'

¹¹ But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

⁹ Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

¹⁷ Learn to do well. Seek justice, Relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, Plead for the widow."

²⁷ Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

³ Honor widows who are widows indeed.

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

¹³ The blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.