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how they blessed me, souls reprieved from instant peril; with what comfort the widow’s heart rejoiced! (Job 29, 13)
Did I deny some poor man the alms he craved, keep the widow waiting for her pittance, (Job 31, 16)
Here is Job telling us that he is innocent, that God denies him his rights, (Job 34, 5)
he is a father to the orphan, and gives the widow redress, this God who dwells apart in holiness. (Psalms 67, 6)
their priests fell by the sword, and never a widow left to mourn for them. (Psalms 77, 64)
murder the widow and the stranger, slay the orphan! (Psalms 93, 6)
The Lord, who protects the stranger, who defends orphan and widow, who overturns the counsel of the wicked! (Psalms 145, 9)
nor claim I any rights over the citadel there, I make it over to the high priest, to garrison it as he will. (1 Maccabees 10, 32)
Take notice I have returned to my kingdom, and sit now on the throne of my fathers, in full possession of my princely rights. Would I regain Syria, needs must I should overthrow Demetrius; (1 Maccabees 10, 52)
to which Simon made this answer: Other men’s fief seized we never, nor other men’s rights detain; here be lands that were our fathers’ once, by enemies of ours for some while wrongfully held; (1 Maccabees 15, 33)
But of one nation, the Jews, we hear that they resisted our father’s will, who would have had them conform to the Greek way of living; to their own tradition they hold fast, and their plea is, we should grant them the enjoyment of their rights in the matter. (2 Maccabees 11, 24)
A house where pride reigns the Lord will pull down at last; will have no encroaching on the lands of the friendless widow. (Proverbs 15, 25)