²¹ If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

⁹ Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

¹² Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

³ That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

2 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

² And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

⁷ In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

²⁸ They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

¹⁰ Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

¹¹ For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.

⁹ They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

²⁷ Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.