2 Chronicles 6:35

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt;

House of David, Yahweh says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.

(for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);

Listen to the petitions of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.

then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.

He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth.

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.

The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have even taught the wicked women your ways.

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.

“Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as strong horses;

Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”

Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.

then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.