⁹ Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.

²¹ Treating evil the barren `who' beareth not, And `to' the widow he doth no good,

³ The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow,

⁷ Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee.

² To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.

²¹ If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in `him' the gate of my court,

³ and a widow was in that city, and she was coming unto him, saying, Do me justice on my opponent,

⁴ and he would not for a time, but after these things he said in himself, Even if God I do not fear, and man do not regard,

⁵ yet because this widow doth give me trouble, I will do her justice, lest, perpetually coming, she may plague me.'

⁵ And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

²² Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I `am' against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, And I have broken his arms, The strong one and the broken one, And have caused the sword to fall out of his hand,

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.

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

⁶ Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.

¹⁷ For the arms of the wicked are shivered, And Jehovah is sustaining the righteous.

¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;

¹⁶ If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,

¹⁷ And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,

¹⁸ (But from my youth He grew up with me as `with' a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)

¹² For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.

¹³ The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing.

¹⁹ `Cursed `is' he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

²¹ `And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, nor crush him, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.

²² `Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict;

²³ if thou dost really afflict him, surely if he at all cry unto Me, I certainly hear his cry;

²⁴ and Mine anger hath burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.