Because I delivered the poor that cried,\par\tab The fatherless also, that had none to help him.
For he will deliver the needy when he crieth,\par\tab And the poor, that hath no helper.
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor,\par\tab He also shall cry, but shall not be heard.
Pure religion and undefiled before {\i our} God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, {\i and} to keep oneself unspotted from the world.\par
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows,\par\tab Is God in his holy habitation.
He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the sojourner, in giving him food and raiment.
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,\par\tab Because I saw my help in the gate:
Or have eaten my morsel alone,\par\tab And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof
They turn the needy out of the way:\par\tab The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast,\par\tab And take a pledge of the poor;
So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto him,\par\tab And he heard the cry of the afflicted.
I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit;\par\tab I am as a man that hath no help,
Open thy mouth for the dumb,\par\tab In the cause of all such as are left desolate.
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble?\par\tab Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
(Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father,\par\tab And her have I guided from my mother's womb);