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

⁹ And you sent widows away empty-handed
    and broke the strength of the fatherless.

³ Defend the weak and the fatherless;
    uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.

⁶ They slay the widow and the foreigner;
    they murder the fatherless.

² to deprive the poor of their rights
    and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,
making widows their prey
    and robbing the fatherless.