you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.

“People cry out because of the excess of oppression; they cry out for help because of the power of the mighty.

Then from the wicked the light is withheld, and the arm raised in violence is broken.

Although you were a powerful man, owning land, an honored man living on it,

“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the person who has no strength!

Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s, and can you thunder with a voice like his?