These four verses more appropriately follow the theme of the previous chapter. In the 1830 Book of Mormon, there was no chapter break. That makes it easier to see the association of these condemnations of the sins of the children of Israel before the next theme, which will be the Assyrian invasion as a tool of Jehovah’s wrath.
Verse 1 is a paralleled phrase that is made more complicated in the King James Version. In some translations, “grievousness” is better translated as oppressive decrees. Thus, the paired ideas would be unrighteous decrees and oppressive decrees.
Verse 2 condemns those who do not appropriately care for the poor and needy. This includes widows and orphans. This set of people are those who are unable to take care of themselves.
Verses 3 and 4 highlight the problem of those who have strayed from Jehovah’s law. Without their God’s support, they will have nowhere to turn for salvation in the coming destruction. We have the repetition of the phrase that has been used before, that “his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.” As before, this is a reiteration of the idea that God’s wrath is still upon the children of Israel. The time for salvation from the destruction is not yet come.