Sing to God, sing praises to his name: Cast up a highway for him who rides through the deserts; His name is Yah; and exult{+} before him.

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.

Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

I will not leave you{+} desolate: I come to you{+}.

Thus has Yahweh of hosts spoken, saying, Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother;

and don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor; and let none of you{+} devise evil against his brother in your{+} heart.

Yahweh preserves the sojourners; He upholds the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.

The blessing of him who was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

²² You{+} will not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

²³ If you afflict him at all, and he cries at all to me, I will surely hear his cry;

²⁴ and my wrath will wax hot, and I will kill you{+} with the sword; and your{+} wives will be widows, and your{+} sons fatherless.

learn to do well; seek justice, correct oppression, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.