New Revised Standard Version
because I delivered the poor who cried, and the orphan who had no helper.

Contemporary English Version
When poor people or orphans cried out for help, I came to their rescue.

New American Bible
For I rescued the poor who cried out for help, the orphans, and the unassisted;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper.

Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper.

I delivered

Job 22:5-9 And not for thy manifold wickedness and thy infinite iniquities? . . .

Nehemiah 5:2-13 And there were some that said: Our sons and our daughters are very many: let us take up corn for the price of them, and let us eat and live. . . .

Psalm 72:12 For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: and the needy that had no helper.

Psalm 82:2-4 How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the wicked? . . .

Proverbs 21:13 He that stoppeth his ear against the cry of the poor, shall also cry himself, and shall not be heard.

Proverbs 24:11,12 Deliver them that are led to death: and those that are drawn to death, forbear not to deliver. . . .

Jeremiah 22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy for his own good: was it not therefore because he knew me, saith the Lord?

the fatherless

Exodus 22:22-24 You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan. . . .

Deuteronomy 10:18 He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth him food and raiment.

Psalm 68:5 Who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows. God in his holy place:

James 1:27 Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.