Psalm 82:3 - The Scriptures 2009

³ Give right-ruling to the poor and fatherless, Do right to the afflicted and needy.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Defend the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and needy.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Do justice to the weak (poor) and fatherless; maintain the rights of the afflicted and needy.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

Common English Bible

³ Give justice to the lowly and the orphan; maintain the right of the poor and the destitute!

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For behold, your enemies have sounded off, and those who hate you have carried out a head.

Psalm 82:3 Cross References

Psalm 10:18

To defend the fatherless and the downtrodden; So that man who is of the earth no longer oppresses!

James 1:27

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.

Jeremiah 22:16

“He defended the cause of the poor and needy – then it was well. Was this not to know Me?” declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 22:3

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.

Jeremiah 5:28

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.

Deuteronomy 24:17

“Do not twist the right-ruling of a stranger or the fatherless, nor take the garment of a widow.

Isaiah 1:23

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.

Isaiah 1:17

“Learn to do good! Seek right-ruling, reprove the oppressor, defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Deuteronomy 10:18

“He executes right-ruling for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and a garment.

Exodus 23:3

“And do not favour a poor man in his strife.

Exodus 23:6

“Do not turn aside the right-ruling of your poor in his strife.

Job 29:12

because I rescued the poor who cried out, and the fatherless who had no helper.

Job 31:21

if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, when I saw I had help in the gate;

Proverbs 31:9

Open your mouth, judge righteously, And plead the cause of the poor and needy.

Jeremiah 21:12

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.

Zechariah 7:9

“Thus said יהוה of hosts, ‘Execute true right-ruling, show loving-commitment and compassion everyone to his brother.