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.

They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

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.

Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

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.

He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch {which} he made. {He made a pit: Heb. He hath digged a pit}

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.

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

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. {oppress: or, defraud}

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.

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: {landmark: or, bound}

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

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.

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and {him that had} none to help him.

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. {oppression: or, deceit}

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. {Defend: Heb. Judge}

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.

He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch {which} he made. {He made a pit: Heb. He hath digged a pit}

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: {landmark: or, bound}

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

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.