Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.

Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.