You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.
He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They ca
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remain
They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their
They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it
You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.
Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me
Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—
Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the