Lexicon :: Strong's H3490 - yāṯôm

“You must not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.

“My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will be widows and your children fatherless.

“He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the resident alien, giving him food and clothing.

“Then the Levite, who has no portion or inheritance among you, the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow within your city gates may come, eat, and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.

“Rejoice before the LORD your God in the place where he chooses to have his name dwell ​— ​you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite within your city gates, as well as the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow among you.

“Rejoice during your festival ​— ​you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, as well as the Levite, the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow within your city gates.

“Do not deny justice to a resident alien or fatherless child, and do not take a widow’s garment as security.

“When you reap the harvest in your field, and you forget a sheaf in the field, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

“When you have finished paying all the tenth of your produce in the third year, the year of the tenth, you are to give it to the Levites, resident aliens, fatherless children, and widows, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.

“‘The one who denies justice to a resident alien, a fatherless child, or a widow is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen! ’

No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless child

and negotiate a price to sell your friend.

You sent widows away empty-handed,

and the strength of the fatherless was[fn] crushed.

They drive away the donkeys owned by the fatherless

and take the widow’s ox as collateral.

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast;

the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral.[fn]

For I rescued the poor who cried out for help,

and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.

if I have eaten my few crumbs alone

without letting the fatherless eat any of it —

if I ever cast my vote[fn] against a fatherless child

when I saw that I had support in the city gate,

But you yourself have seen trouble and grief,

observing it in order to take the matter into your hands.

The helpless one entrusts himself to you;

you are a helper of the fatherless.

doing justice for the fatherless and the oppressed

so that mere humans from the earth may terrify them no more.

God in his holy dwelling is

a father of the fatherless

and a champion of widows.

“Provide justice for the needy and the fatherless;

uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute.

They kill the widow and the resident alien

and murder the fatherless.

Let his children be fatherless

and his wife a widow.

Let no one show him kindness,

and let no one be gracious to his fatherless children.

The LORD protects resident aliens

and helps the fatherless and the widow,

but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.

Don’t move an ancient boundary marker,

and don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

“Learn to do what is good.

Pursue justice.

Correct the oppressor.[fn]

Defend the rights of the fatherless.

Plead the widow’s cause.

Your rulers are rebels,

friends of thieves.

They all love graft

and chase after bribes.

They do not defend the rights of the fatherless,

and the widow’s case never comes before them.

Therefore the Lord does not rejoice

over[fn] Israel’s young men

and has no compassion

on its fatherless and widows,

for everyone is a godless evildoer,

and every mouth speaks folly.

In all this, his anger has not turned away,

and his hand is still raised to strike.

to keep the poor from getting a fair trial

and to deprive the needy among my people of justice,

so that widows can be their spoil

and they can plunder the fatherless.

“They have become fat and sleek.

They have also excelled in evil matters.

They have not taken up cases,

such as the case of the fatherless, so they might prosper,

and they have not defended the rights of the needy.

if you no longer oppress the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow and no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods, bringing harm on yourselves,

“This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from his oppressor. Don’t exploit or brutalize the resident alien, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

Abandon your fatherless; I will preserve them;

let your widows trust in me.

We have become orphans, fatherless;

our mothers are widows.

“Father and mother are treated with contempt, and the resident alien is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.

“Assyria will not save us,

we will not ride on horses,

and we will no longer proclaim, ‘Our gods! ’

to the work of our hands.

For the fatherless receives compassion in you.”

“Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the resident alien or the poor, and do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’

“I will come to you in judgment, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless; and against those who deny justice to the resident alien. They do not fear me,” says the LORD of Armies.