But You have seen, for You observe trouble and grief, To repay it by Your hand. The helpless commits himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

To do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, That the man of the earth may oppress no more.

A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows, Is God in His holy habitation.

Defend the poor and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and needy.

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

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

Let there be none to extend mercy to him, Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.

The Lord watches over the strangers; He relieves the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked He turns upside down.