Assyria can't save us. We won't ride on horses; Neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, 'Our gods!' For in you the fatherless finds mercy."
(3) The mercy to the fatherless as a hallmark of the New Covenant has been fulfilled in two ways.  Never before in the world's history has so much time, money, and thoughtful care been expended upon behalf of orphan children as by the saints of God's holy church.  But there is likely something else also inherent here.  The pre-Christian Gentiles were "fatherless" as far as their relation to God was concerned; but they were adopted "in Christ Jesus."  Paul wrote to a Gentile church, saying, "Ye received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father"  (Romans 8:15).