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.
Sing to God—praise His Name, || Raise up a highway for Him who is riding in deserts, || In YAH [is] His Name, and exult before Him. Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, || [Is] God in His holy habitation.
YHWH is preserving the strangers, || He causes the fatherless and widow to stand, || And He turns the way of the wicked upside down.
Judge the weak and fatherless, || Declare the afflicted and the poor righteous.
I will not leave you bereaved, I 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.
religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation—to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Seek judgment, make the oppressed blessed, || Judge the fatherless, strive [for] the widow.
"Thus spoke YHWH of Hosts, saying, || Judge [with] true judgment, || And do kindness and mercy with one another. And do not oppress widow, and fatherless, || Sojourner, and poor, || And you do not devise the calamity of one another in your heart.
You do not afflict any widow or orphan; if you really afflict him, surely if he cries to Me at all, I certainly hear his cry; and My anger has burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.
For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, || And the fatherless who has no helper. The blessing of the perishing comes on me, || And I cause the heart of the widow to sing.