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make straight the oppression
God speaks of people who oppress others as if they had made crooked something that should be straight, and he calls on them to make that object straight again. The abstract noun "oppression" can be translated as a verb. Alternate translation: "make sure that those helpless people you have harmed no longer suffer from the bad things you have done to them" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns)
give justice to the fatherless
"be fair to the children who do not have fathers"
defend the widow
"protect the women whose husbands have died"