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 Sing ye to God, Make music of his Name,Lift up (a song), to him that rideth through the waste plains,Since Yah is his name, exult ye before him.5 The father of the fatherless, And the advocate of widows, Is God, in his holy habitation.
9 Yahweh, who preserveth sojourners, The fatherless and widows, he relieveth,but, the way of the lawless, he overturneth.
3 Vindicate the weak and the fatherless, The oppressed and the poor, see righted;
18 I will not leave you bereft,I am coming unto 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 Religious observance, pure and undefiled with our God and Father, is, thisto be visiting orphans and widows in their affliction, unspotted, to keep, himself, from the world.
17 Learn to do wellSeek justice, Correct the oppressor,Vindicate the fatherless, Plead the cause of the widow,
9 Thus, spake Yahweh of hosts, saying,With true justice, give ye judgment, and, lovingkindness and compassions, observe ye, one with another;10 And, the widow and the fatherless, the sojourner and the humbled, do not ye oppress,and, wickedness between one man and another, do not ye devise in your hearts.
22 Neither widow nor fatherless, shalt thou humiliate:23 if thou, do humiliate, him, when he in anywise crieth out unto me, I will, surely hear, his outcry:24 so shall kindle mine anger, and I will slay you with the sword,and your wives, shall become widows, and your, sons fatherless.
12 Because I used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper;13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish, upon me was wont to descend, and, the heart of the widow, caused I to sing for joy;