if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.
Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.
Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.
they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless, for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.
(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)
You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.
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