You see [it]; for You observe trouble and wrath, to deliver them into Your hands; the poor has been left to You; You are a helper to the orphan.

to plead for the orphan and afflicted, that man may no more boast upon the earth. [In the Septuagint, Psalms 9 and 10 are combined, and the Psalm numbers differ from this point on. [The Apostles' Bible] follows the traditional Psalm divisions, to avoid confusion.]

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

Rescue the needy, and deliver the poor out of the hand of the sinner.

He will relieve the orphan and widow: but will utterly remove the way of sinners.

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

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

for your fatherless one to be left to live, but I shall live, and the widows trust in Me.

Assyria shall never save us; we will not mount on horseback; we will no longer say to the works of our hands, Our gods. He who is in you shall pity the orphan.

[that he may] judge Your people with righteousness, and Your poor with judgment.

He shall judge the poor of the people in righteousness, and save the children of the needy; and shall bring low the false accuser.

executing judgment for the stranger and orphan and widow, and He loves the stranger, to give him food and clothing.

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

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

Your princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows.

They have transgressed [the rule of] judgment; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow.

saying: "A certain judge was in a certain city, who did not fear God nor have regard for men.

And he did not want to for a time; but afterward he said within himself, 'although I do not fear God, nor have regard for man,

Then the Lord said, "Hear what the unjust judge said.

Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children.

He looks [down] from His dwelling place on all the inhabitants of the earth;

But I have built a house to Your name, holy to You, and prepared [for You] to dwell in forever.

Then the priests the Levites rose up and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came [up] to His holy dwelling place, [even] into heaven.

Thus says the Most High, who dwells on high forever, Holy in the holies is His name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the broken-hearted;

Thus says the Lord: Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool; what kind of a house will you build for Me? And of what kind [is to be] the place of My rest?

However, the Most High does not dwell in handmaid sanctuaries, just as the prophet says:

'Heaven is My throne, and earth a footstool for My feet. What kind of house will you build for Me? says the LORD, or what is the place of My rest?