But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.

to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.

In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them.

For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord will take me in.

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers.

Come to Our Help

To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.

O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old:

Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear: forget your people and your father's house,

In place of your fathers shall be your sons; you will make them princes in all the earth.

his soul will go to the generation of his fathers, who will never again see light.

Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us.

He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children,

and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

In the sight of their fathers he performed wonders in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.

but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

He shall cry to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.’

They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless;

when your fathers put me to the test and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.

Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wondrous works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow!

Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children!

May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out!