Psalms 82:3
Against your people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against your saints. 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
In Context
2For behold, your enemies have made a noise; and they that hate you have lifted up the head. 1
Cross References
Exodus 23:3And you shall not spare a poor man in judgment.
Deuteronomy 10:18executing judgment for the stranger and orphan and widow, and he loves the stranger to give him food and raiment.
Job 29:12For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper.
Isaiah 1:17learn to do well; diligently seek judgment, deliver him that is suffering wrong, plead for the orphan, and obtain justice for the widow.
Jeremiah 5:28and they have transgressed the rule of judgment; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow.
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 →