²³ Your rulers are rebels,^(A)
    partners with thieves;^(B)
they all love bribes^(C)
    and chase after gifts.
They do not defend the cause of the fatherless;
    the widow’s case does not come before them.^(D)

⁹ And you sent widows^(A) away empty-handed^(B)
    and broke the strength of the fatherless.^(C)

³ Defend the weak and the fatherless;^(A)
    uphold the cause of the poor^(B) and the oppressed.

⁶ They slay the widow^(A) and the foreigner;
    they murder the fatherless.^(B)

² to deprive^(A) the poor of their rights
    and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,^(B)
making widows their prey
    and robbing the fatherless.^(C)