if I have raised my hand against the orphan because I saw I had supporters at the gate;
You have sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you have crushed.
“There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.
because I delivered the poor who cried and the orphan who had no helper.
When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square,
or have eaten my morsel alone and the orphan has not eaten from it—
whose loins have not blessed me, and who was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
You would even cast lots over the orphan and bargain over your friend.
Give justice to the weak and the orphan; maintain the right of the lowly and the destitute.
they have grown fat and sleek. They know no limits in deeds of wickedness; they do not judge with justice the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the alien residing within you suffers extortion; the orphan and the widow are wronged in you.
Their hands are skilled to do evil; the official and the judge ask for a bribe, and the powerful dictate what they desire; thus they pervert justice.