Órfãos
Deus tem um cuidado especial pelos órfãos. Ele se apresenta como pai dos que não têm pai e defensor dos desamparados, e ordena a seu povo que faça o mesmo.
Deus, pai dos órfãos
O Senhor é pai dos órfãos e protetor das viúvas. Ele sustenta os que perderam amparo humano e cuida deles com ternura.
4 And let the just feast, and rejoice before God: and be delighted with gladness.5 Sing ye to God, sing a psalm to his name, make a way for him who ascendeth upon the west: the Lord is his name. Rejoice ye before him: but the wicked shall be troubled at his presence,
9 The Lord is sweet to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
3 Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor.
18 I will not leave you orphans, I will come to you.
O chamado da justiça
A religião pura é visitar órfãos e viúvas em suas aflições. Deus ordena a defesa do necessitado e o cuidado com os mais frágeis.
27 Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.
17 Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
9 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: Judge ye true judgment, and shew ye mercy and compassion every man to his brother.10 And oppress not the widow, and the fatherless, and the stranger, and the poor: and let not a man devise evil in his heart against his brother.
22 You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan.23 If you hurt them they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry:24 And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will strike you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
12 Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless that had no helper.13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.