You have sent widows away empty, And the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; They take the widow's ox as a pledge.

"[Some] snatch the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge from the poor.

Because I delivered the poor who cried out, The fatherless and [the one who] had no helper.

Or eaten my morsel by myself, So that the fatherless could not eat of it

If I have raised my hand against the fatherless, When I saw I had help in the gate;

" You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

"and My wrath will become hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Defend the poor and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and needy.

Do not remove the ancient landmark, Nor enter the fields of the fatherless;

For their Redeemer [is] mighty; He will plead their cause against you.

"In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the stranger; in you they have mistreated the fatherless and the widow.

And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness Against sorcerers, Against adulterers, Against perjurers, Against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, And against those who turn away an alien -- Because they do not fear Me," Says the LORD of hosts.

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

He made a pit and dug it out, And has fallen into the ditch [which] he made.

They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down; They have dug a pit before me; Into the midst of it they [themselves] have fallen. Selah

Shall evil be repaid for good? For they have dug a pit for my life. Remember that I stood before You To speak good for them, To turn away Your wrath from them.

Let a cry be heard from their houses, When You bring a troop suddenly upon them; For they have dug a pit to take me, And hidden snares for my feet.