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

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

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.

to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.

Then David went to his palace in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.