¹¹ For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.

²³ For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.

²⁵ But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;

²² Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.

²³ If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear;

²⁴ And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

¹⁹ Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it.

⁵ Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.

³⁶ For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what you have undergone; I will make her sea dry, and her fountain without water.

³³ This is what the Lord of armies has said: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are crushed down together: all those who took them prisoner keep them in a tight grip; they will not let them go.

³⁴ Their saviour is strong; the Lord of armies is his name: he will certainly take up their cause, so that he may give rest to the earth and trouble to the people of Babylon.