Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 22:3

3 Thus saith the LORD, Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place .

That is administer justice to all your subjects, the Stranger, the Fatherless, and the Widow ▪ are particularly named, as persons who have fewest F[illegible: 1 letter]iends, and so are most exposed to the lusts of great men, who have a power to oppress them, 2 things are observable. 1. That the terms upon which God promiseth mercy to them, are such as were in their power to perform. 2. They are the due performance of relative duties, to teach us how much lyeth upon mens just performance of the duties of their Relations, and more particularly, how much God loveth justice and judgment, without the impartial execution of which, no Princes, no Magistrates can promise themselves security from temporal judgments, which much commendeth the love of God to humane society, injustice being the greatest Enemy to it, and justice the great foundation and pillar of it.

Marginal references: chap. 21.12.