We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

She left immediately, ¹  removed her veil, and put on her widow’s clothes.

you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms ¹  of the orphans you crushed. ² 

Their ¹  priests fell by the sword, but their ²  widows did not weep. ³ 

They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

Those who survive him are buried by the plague, ¹  and their ²  widows do not mourn for them.

the blessing of the dying man descended on me, ¹  and I made the widow’s heart rejoice; ² 

He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. ¹  God rules from his holy palace. ² 

Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.” ¹ 

You wrongly evict widows ¹  among my people from their cherished homes. You defraud their children ²  of their prized inheritance. ³ 

and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless. ¹ 

You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.

You are to rejoice in your festival, you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows who are in your villages. ¹ 

to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive ¹  the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans. ² 

Her princes ¹  within her are like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they have devoured lives. They take away riches and valuable things; they have made many women widows ²  within it.

So she removed her widow’s clothes and covered herself with a veil. She wrapped herself and sat at the entrance to Enaim which is on the way to Timnah. (She did this because ¹  she saw that she had not been given to Shelah as a wife, even though he had now grown up.) ² 

Then the Levites (because they have no allotment or inheritance with you), the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows of your villages may come and eat their fill so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work you do.

You shall rejoice before him ¹  – you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, ²  the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you – in the place where the Lord chooses to locate his name.

When you finish tithing all ¹  your income in the third year (the year of tithing), you must give it to the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows ²  so that they may eat to their satisfaction in your villages. ³ 

Then you shall say before the Lord your God, “I have removed the sacred offering ¹  from my house and given it to the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows just as you have commanded me. ²  I have not violated or forgotten your commandments.