if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is
They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fat
Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the
You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.