But you have sent widows away empty, and have afflicted orphans.

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

They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast.

For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper.

And if I also ate my morsel alone, and did not impart [of it] to the orphan;

if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior [to his]:

You shall hurt no widow or orphan.

And I will be very angry, and will slay you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children orphans.

Judge the orphan and poor; do justice to the low and needy.

Remove not the ancient landmarks, and enter not upon the possession of the fatherless;

for the Lord is their redeemer; He is mighty, and will plead their cause with you.

In you they have reviled father and mother; and in you they have behaved unjustly toward the stranger; they have oppressed the orphan and widow.

And I will draw near to you in judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by My name, and against them that keep back the hireling's wages, and them that oppress the widow, and afflict orphans, and that wrest the judgment of the stranger, and do not fear Me, says the Lord Almighty.

Pure and undefiled religion before God and [the] Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

He has opened a pit, and dug it up, and he shall fall into the ditch which he has made.

They have prepared snares for my feet, and have bowed down my soul; they have dug a pit before my face, and fallen into it [themselves]. Pause.

Forasmuch as evil is rewarded for good; for they have spoken words against my soul, and they have hidden the punishment they [meant] for me. Remember that I stood before Your face, to speak good concerning them, to turn away Your wrath from them.

Let there be a cry in their houses: You shall bring upon them robbers suddenly- for they have formed a plan to take me, and have hidden snares for me.