Psalms 10:18
You show that orphans and oppressed people have not done things that are wrong, with the result that human beings will not cause people to be terrified any more.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 10:18He makes sure that orphans and widows are treated fairly. He loves even ◄foreigners/people from other countries► who live among us Israeli people, and he gives them food and clothes.
Psalms 10:14But you see the trouble and the distress that they cause. People who are suffering expect that you will help them; and you help orphans, also.
Psalms 72:4Help me, your king, to defend the poor people and to rescue needy people and to defeat those who oppress them.
Psalms 82:3You must defend people who are poor and orphans; you must act fairly toward those who are needy and those who have no one to help them.
Isaiah 11:4He will judge the cases of needy people fairly; and he will act justly toward poor people. He will punish evil people as a result of what he decides [MTY]; he will get rid of wicked people because of [MTY] their behavior.
Luke 18:7Similarly, ◄God will certainly show that what you have done has been right!/will God not show that what you have done has been right?► [RHQ] He will do this for you whom he has chosen. He will do this for you who pray earnestly to him night and day, asking him to help you. He may delay helping you.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 10:13-18
Prayer against Persecutors. 12 Arise, O Lord ; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. 14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none. 16 The Lord is King for ever and ever: the heathen are… Read the whole commentary →