⁹ Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.

⁵ Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, `Is' God in His holy habitation.

¹¹ Leave thine orphans -- I do keep alive, And thy widows -- on Me trust ye,

⁶ Jehovah is causing the meek to stand, Making low the wicked unto the earth.

¹⁹ The way of the wicked `is' as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

²⁵ The house of the proud Jehovah pulleth down, And He setteth up the border of the widow.

³ Asshur doth not save us, on a horse we ride not, Nor do we say any more, Our God, to the work of our hands, For in Thee find mercy doth the fatherless.'

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.

¹⁹ for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, `Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;'

²⁷ religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.

²⁰ Jehovah preserveth all those loving Him, And all the wicked He destroyeth.

¹³ O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind.

¹⁴ As a fire doth burn a forest, And as a flame setteth hills on fire,

¹⁵ So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them.

¹⁶ Fill their faces `with' shame, And they seek Thy name, O Jehovah.

¹⁷ They are ashamed and troubled for ever, Yea, they are confounded and lost.

²⁶ With the pure Thou showest Thyself pure, And with the perverse showest Thyself a wrestler,

¹⁸ He is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner, to give to him bread and raiment.

¹⁹ `And ye have loved the sojourner, for sojourners ye were in the land of Egypt.

¹¹ And thou hast rejoiced before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and the Levite who `is' within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who `are' in thy midst, in the place which Jehovah thy God doth choose to cause His name to tabernacle there,

³¹ and David declared, saying, `Ahithophel `is' among the conspirators with Absalom;' and David saith, `Make foolish, I pray Thee, the counsel of Ahithophel, O Jehovah.'

²³ And Ahithophel hath seen that his counsel was not done, and he saddleth the ass, and riseth and goeth unto his house, unto his city, and giveth charge unto his household, and strangleth himself, and dieth, and he is buried in the burying-place of his father.

¹⁴ And Zeresh his wife saith to him, and all his friends, `Let them prepare a tree, in height fifty cubits, and in the morning speak to the king, and they hang Mordecai on it, and go thou in with the king unto the banquet rejoicing;' and the thing is good before Haman, and he prepareth the tree.

¹⁰ And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.

²⁵ and in her coming in before the king, he said with the letter, `Let his evil device that he devised against the Jews turn back upon his own head,' and they have hanged him and his sons on the tree,

¹² Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.

¹³ Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,

¹⁴ By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.

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;