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 unto God, make music unto His name; exalt Him who rides in the wilderness by His name YAH, and rejoice before Him.5 In His holy dwelling God is a father to the fatherless, and a judge for the widows.
9 Jehovah watches over the sojourners; He relieves the fatherless and widow; but the way of the wicked He turns upside down.
3 Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy.
18 I will not leave you orphans; I am coming 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 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
17 Learn to do good, seek justice, set straight the oppressor, judge for the orphan, plead for the widow.
9 Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, saying, Judge true justice, and show goodness and compassion, everyone to his brother.10 And do not oppress the widow, or the fatherless, the alien, or the poor. And do not devise evil in your heart, a man against his brother.
22 You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.23 If you afflict them to humiliate them, and they make an outcry to cry out unto Me, I will hear and give heed to their cry;24 and My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
12 because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless and the one who had no one to help him.13 The blessing of the dying man came upon me, and I caused the widows heart to sing for joy.