Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,
They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?
or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother's womb);
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.
I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says the LORD.
He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.