John Chrysostom, on Ps 145:9

“The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.”

“For as long as your blessed husband was with you, you enjoyed honor and care and zealous attention. In fact you enjoyed such as you might expect to enjoy from a husband; but, since God took him to himself, [God] has taken his place with you. And this is not my saying but that of the blessed prophet David, for he says, "He will take up the fatherless and the widow," and elsewhere he calls him "father of the fatherless and judge of the widow." Thus in many passages you will see that he is earnestly concerned about the cause of this class of people.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.