“You must not afflict any widow or orphan.

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

They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

Defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless! Vindicate the oppressed and suffering!

They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land, and they murder the fatherless.

May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend.

for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him;

If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans –

He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy palace.

Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless,

Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.”

and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.

who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.

You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.

When you beat your olive tree you must not repeat the procedure; the remaining olives belong to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.

When you gather the grapes of your vineyard you must not do so a second time; they should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.

‘Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’