¹⁷ Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive `for' the widow.

³ Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.

³ Seek Jehovah, all ye humble of the land, Who His judgment have done, Seek ye righteousness, seek humility, It may be ye are hidden in a day of the anger of Jehovah.

²³ Thy princes `are' apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.

³ Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.

⁴ Let the weak and needy escape, From the hand of the wicked deliver them.

¹⁶ These `are' the things that ye do: Speak ye truth each with his neighbour, Truth and peaceful judgment judge in your gates,

⁹ `Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another.

¹⁰ And widow, and fatherless, Sojourner, and poor, ye do not oppress, And the calamity of one another ye do not devise in your heart.

⁸ He hath declared to thee, O man, what `is' good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except -- to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?

¹⁵ Dost thou reign, because thou art fretting thyself in cedar? Thy father -- did he not eat and drink? Yea, he did judgment and righteousness, Then `it is' well with him.

¹⁶ He decided the cause of the poor and needy, Then `it is' well -- is it not to know Me? An affirmation of Jehovah.

⁹ Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!'

²⁷ `Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and thy sins by righteousness break off, and thy perversity by pitying the poor, lo, it is a lengthening of thine ease.