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Psalms 82:3

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

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In Context

2How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

4Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:3Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

Deuteronomy 10:18He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

Psalms 10:18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

Isaiah 1:17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Jeremiah 5:28They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right 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 →

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