³ They drive away the orphan’s donkey
    and take the widow’s ox in pledge.^(A)

²¹ They prey on the barren and childless woman,
    and to the widow they show no kindness.^(A)

¹³ The one who was dying blessed me;^(A)
    I made the widow’s^(B) heart sing.

¹⁶ “If I have denied the desires of the poor^(A)
    or let the eyes of the widow^(B) grow weary,^(C)

¹⁸ but from my youth I reared them as a father would,
    and from my birth I guided the widow^(A)—