Psalms 82:3
Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
In Context
2Till when do ye judge perversely? And the face of the wicked lift up? Selah.
4Let the weak and needy escape, From the hand of the wicked deliver them.
Cross References
Exodus 23:3and a poor man thou dost not honour in his strife.
Deuteronomy 10:18He is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner, to give to him bread and raiment.
Job 29:12For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.
Psalms 10:18To judge the fatherless and bruised: He addeth no more to oppress — man of the earth!
Isaiah 1:17Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive [for] the widow.
Jeremiah 5:28They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless — and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.
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 →