¹¹ Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

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

³ Assyria can't save us. We won't ride on horses; Neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, 'Our gods!' For in you the fatherless finds mercy."

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.

⁵ Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

⁵ I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Hosts.

¹¹ Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?"

¹⁰ Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:

¹¹ For their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

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

³ "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

¹⁴ But you do see trouble and grief; You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.

¹⁶ Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.

¹⁷ Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

¹⁸ To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, That man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

¹⁸ He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.