Job 31:16-17
16 “If I have awithheld anything that the poor desired,or have bcaused the eyes of the widow to fail,
17or have eaten my morsel alone,
and the fatherless has not eaten of it
Psalms 10:14
14But you do see, for you cnote mischief and vexation,that you may take it into your hands;
to you the helpless dcommits himself;
you have been ethe helper of the fatherless.
Psalms 10:18
18to fdo justice to the fatherless and gthe oppressed,so that hman who is of the earth may strike terror no more.
Psalms 82:3-4
3 iGive justice to jthe weak and the fatherless;kmaintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
4 lRescue the weak and the needy;
mdeliver them from the hand of the wicked.”
Psalms 146:9
9 nThe Lord watches over the sojourners;ohe upholds the widow and the fatherless,
but pthe way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
Jeremiah 49:11
11 qLeave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive;rand let your widows trust in me.”
Hosea 14:3
3 sAssyria shall not save us;twe will not ride on horses;
and uwe will say no more, ‘Our God,’
to the work of our hands.
vIn you the orphan finds mercy.”
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