“Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.”
The affirmation that God surely sees trouble and grief and takes it into His hands repeats the counter-assertion that God attends to victim's suffering and intervenes. The mention that the helpless commit themselves to God establishes vulnerability as occasion for faith, making the powerless's dependence on God essential to survival. The promise that God is helper of the fatherless suggests that divine care extends specifically to the most vulnerable. This verse reasserts the fundamental conviction of faith that God's hiddenness does not reflect absence but hidden care.
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