If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. The divine guarantee: if the widow or orphan cries out to God, God will hear. The same divine hearing that responded to Israel's groan in Egypt applies to the widow and orphan within Israel. Psalm 68:5 says a father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. The God who heard the groan of the enslaved Israelites is the God who hears the cry of every widow and orphan. The threat implied in you will and they will cry is that God's response to the cry of the vulnerable will be the same kind of response He gave to Israel's cry in Egypt: visible, powerful, and directed at those who caused the suffering.

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