Psalms 82:3
Judge uprightly the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and indigent.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
In Context
2How long will ye judge unjustly, and treat with favor the face of the wicked? Selah.
4Release the poor and needy: deliver them out of the power of the wicked.
Cross References
Exodus 23:3Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
Deuteronomy 10:18Who executeth justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment.
Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, yea, that had none to help him.
Psalms 10:18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that not farther more shall be arrogant the mortal from the earth.
Isaiah 1:17Learn to do well; seek for justice, relieve the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Jeremiah 5:28They are grown fat, they are stout; yea, they surpass even the deeds of the wicked: they pronounce no [just] sentence, the sentence of the fatherless, that they might prosper; and the cause of the needy do they not judge.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 82:2-6
The Duty of Magistrates. 1 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods. 2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. 3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. 4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. 5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. We have here, I. God's supreme presidency and power in all councils… Read the whole commentary →