"Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend."
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Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and dig [a pit] for your friend.
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
Yes, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.
Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.