Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. {relieve: or, righten}

Cursed {be} he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

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

And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:

How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I {am} indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.

Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard {it}.

O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver {him that is} spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench {it}, because of the evil of your doings. {Execute: Heb. Judge}

And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make {the oppressed} to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king. {Help: Heb. Save}

About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed {me}, desiring {to have} judgment against him.

And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.

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