⁹ The Lord watches over the foreigner^(A)
    and sustains the fatherless^(B) and the widow,^(C)
    but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.

⁵ A father to the fatherless,^(A) a defender of widows,^(B)
    is God in his holy dwelling.^(C)

¹¹ ‘Leave your fatherless children;^(A) I will keep them alive.
    Your widows^(B) too can depend on me.’”

¹⁷ Learn to do right;^(A) seek justice.^(B)
    Defend the oppressed.^[a](C)
Take up the cause of the fatherless;^(D)
    plead the case of the widow.^(E)

⁹ The Lord is good^(A) to all;
    he has compassion^(B) on all he has made.