"Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked" (Psalm 82:3,4). "If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; if thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not He that pondereth the heart consider it? And He that keepeth thy soul, doth not He know it? And shall not He render to every man according to His works?" (Proverbs 24:11,12).
Defend the poor and fatherless;
Deliver the afflicted.
Do these commands of tenderness
Make our hearts convicted?
Then let conviction come, and thus
May we be stirred to heed!
For thereby God commissions us
To meet another's need.
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