Psalms 82:4
Release the poor and needy: deliver them out of the power of the wicked.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
In Context
3Judge uprightly the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and indigent.
Cross References
Nehemiah 5:1And there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, yea, that had none to help him.
Psalms 72:12For he will deliver the needy when he crieth; the afflicted also, who hath no helper.
Proverbs 24:11Deliver those that are taken unto death, and those that are moved away to the slaughter hold back.
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 →