You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Therefore snares are round about you, and sudden fear troubles you;

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out: yet God charges not folly to them.

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

If his heart has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

Because of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out because of the arm of the mighty.

And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaned by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that sneers at him.

For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries: and the cries of them who have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

If you lend money to any of my people who is poor among you, you shall not be to him as a lender, neither shall you charge him interest.

For that is his only covering, it is his clothing for his skin: in what shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he cries unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.