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

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

¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.

¹⁷ You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

³ Thus says Yahweh: Execute you justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

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

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

²³ Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, Neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

²⁸ They are grew fat, they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they don't judge.

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.