Lamentations 3:60

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

Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.

For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”

“If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.

Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Let me now run and carry the king news, how Yahweh has avenged him of his enemies.”

‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,’ says Yahweh; ‘and I will repay you in this plot of ground,’ says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to Yahweh’s word.”

then hear from heaven, act, and judge your servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”

When they had departed from him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died. They buried him in David’s city, but they didn’t bury him in the tombs of the kings.

But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help.

in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.

What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me.

For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.

Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.

Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”

For the destroyer has come on her, even on Babylon. Her mighty men are taken. Their bows are broken in pieces, for Yahweh is a God of retribution. He will surely repay.

Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.

You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

“Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.