For the Lord gave her no child in her affliction, and according to the despondency of her affliction; and she was dispirited on this account, that the Lord had shut up her womb so as not to give her a child.

So she did year by year, in going up to the house of the Lord; and she was dispirited, and wept, and did not eat.

They have led away the donkey of the fatherless, and taken the widow's ox for a pledge.

Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me; yea, the mouth of the widow has blessed me.

But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail.

(for I nourished them as a father from my youth and guided [them] from my mother's womb.)