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.

but let him that boasts boast in this: the understanding and knowing that I am the Lord that exercises mercy, and judgment, and righteousness upon the earth; for in these things is My pleasure, says the Lord.

O house of David, thus says the Lord: Judge judgment in the morning, and act rightly, and rescue the spoiled one from the hand of him that wrongs him, lest My anger be kindled like fire, and it burn, and there be none to quench [it].

You shall not pervert the judgment of the poor in his cause.

And you shall not receive gifts; for gifts blind the eyes of the seeing, and corrupt just words.

You shall not act unjustly in judgment: you shall not accept the person of the poor, nor admire the person of the mighty; with justice shall you judge your neighbor.

You shall make for yourself judges and officers in your cities, which the Lord your God gives you in [your] tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment;

You shall justly pursue justice, that you may live, and go in and inherit the land which the Lord your God gives you.

And if there should be a dispute between men, and they should come forward to judgment, and [the judges] judge, and justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

The God of Israel says, The watchman out of Israel spoke to me a parable: I said among men, How will you strengthen the fear of the anointed?

When I went forth early in the city, and the seat was placed for me in the streets.

And the great men ceased speaking, and laid their finger on their mouth.

For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye saw me, and turned aside.

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

I was the eye of the blind, and the foot of the lame.

And I broke the fangs of the wicked; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth.

[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.

Their heads have judged for gifts, and their priests have answered for hire, and her prophets have divined for silver: and yet they have rested on the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord among us? No evil shall come upon us.

Thus says the Lord Almighty; Judge righteous judgment, and deal mercifully and compassionately, everyone with his brother,

But they refused to attend, and madly turned their back, and made their ears heavy, so that they should not hear.

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

And if a man should be caught stealing one of his brethren of the children of Israel, and having overcome him he should sell him, that thief shall die; so shall you remove that evil one from yourselves.

Cursed is everyone that shall pervert the judgment of the stranger, and orphan, and widow. And all the people shall say, So be it.

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

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.

[who is] the Father of the orphans, and Judge of the widows; [such is] God in His holy place.

They have slain the widow and fatherless, and murdered the stranger.

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

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

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.

Behold, your eyes are not good, nor your heart, but [they go] after your covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.

and oppress not the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and go not after strange gods to your hurt;

Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the false prophets; Judgment of death is not [due] to this man; for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.

So innocent blood shall not be spilled in the land which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, and there shall not be in you one guilty of blood.

then shall the elders of his city send, and take him from there, and they shall deliver him into the hands of the avengers of blood, and he shall die.

Moreover he shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon [it].

They will hunt for the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.

The eye of the haughty, an unjust tongue, hands shedding innocent blood,

When you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away My eyes from you; and though you make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood.

learn to do well; diligently seek judgment, deliver him that is suffering wrong, plead for the orphan, and obtain justice for the widow.

And if you are willing, and hearken to Me, you shall eat the good of the land;

Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate plain, because of the wrongs of the children of Judah, because they have shed righteous blood in their land.