You have seen it: for you behold mischief and spite, to repay it with your hand: the poor commits himself unto you; you are the helper of the fatherless.

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

Or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it;

Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, you are our gods: for in you the fatherless finds mercy.

He shall judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, in giving him food and clothing.

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.

Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come before them.

They have grown fat, they shine: yea, they pass over the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not defend.

Saying, There was in a city a judge, who feared not God, neither regarded man:

And he would not for awhile: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;

And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge said.

Be you therefore followers of God, as dear children;

From the place of his habitation he looks upon all the inhabitants of the earth.

But I have built a house of habitation for you, and a place for your dwelling forever.

Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.

For thus says the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

Thus says the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that you build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?

Yet the most High dwells not in temples made with hands; as says the prophet,

Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will you build me? says the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?