because I rescued the poor who cried out, and the fatherless who had no helper.
Psalm 82:3 - The Scriptures 2009 Give right-ruling to the poor and fatherless, Do right to the afflicted and needy. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Defend the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and needy. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Do justice to the weak (poor) and fatherless; maintain the rights of the afflicted and needy. American Standard Version (1901) Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute. Common English Bible Give justice to the lowly and the orphan; maintain the right of the poor and the destitute! Catholic Public Domain Version For behold, your enemies have sounded off, and those who hate you have carried out a head. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. |
because I rescued the poor who cried out, and the fatherless who had no helper.
if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, when I saw I had help in the gate;
To defend the fatherless and the downtrodden; So that man who is of the earth no longer oppresses!
Open your mouth, judge righteously, And plead the cause of the poor and needy.
“Learn to do good! Seek right-ruling, reprove the oppressor, defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Your rulers are stubborn, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and runs after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow reach them.
O house of Dawiḏ! Thus said יהוה, “Render right-ruling in the morning, and deliver him who has been robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My wrath go out like fire and burn, with no one to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.
“He defended the cause of the poor and needy – then it was well. Was this not to know Me?” declares יהוה.
Thus said יהוה, “Do right-ruling and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do not maltreat nor do violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
They have become fat, they are sleek. They also overlook the deeds of the wrong. They did not rightly rule the cause of the fatherless, so that they prosper. And the right of the needy they did not rightly rule.
“Thus said יהוה of hosts, ‘Execute true right-ruling, show loving-commitment and compassion everyone to his brother.
“He executes right-ruling for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and a garment.
“Do not twist the right-ruling of a stranger or the fatherless, nor take the garment of a widow.
Clean and undefiled religion before the Elohim and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.