

Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend. You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the foreigner, or the poor, nor should anyone secretly plot evil against his fellow human being.

They have treated father and mother with contempt within you they have oppressed the foreigner among you they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you. The Lord protects those residing outside their native land he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked. You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan. Who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing. The unfortunate victim entrusts his cause to you you deliver the fatherless.Īnd my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless. You have taken notice, for you always see one who inflicts pain and suffering. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again. So the sovereign master was not pleased with their young men, he took no pity on their orphans and widows for the whole nation was godless and did wicked things, every mouth was speaking disgraceful words. He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. You defend the fatherless and oppressed, so that mere mortals may no longer terrorize them. To keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans. You are to rejoice in your festival, you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows who are in your villages. May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow! They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land, and they murder the fatherless. If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans, They drive away the orphan’s donkey they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.ĭo not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless, Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world. “You must not afflict any widow or orphan. Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. You sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms 1 of the orphans you crushed. “I will not abandon you as orphans, I will come to you. We have become fatherless orphans our mothers have become widows.
