Psalm 82:3

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

Job 29:12

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

Job 31:21

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

Psalm 10:18

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

Exodus 23:3

Neither shall you countenance a poor man in his cause.

Exodus 23:6

You shall not wrest the judgment of your poor in his cause.

Proverbs 31:9

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

Isaiah 1:17

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

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Jeremiah 21:12

O house of David, thus said the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Jeremiah 22:16

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? said the LORD.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus said the LORD; Execute you judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 5:28

They are waxen fat, they shine: yes, 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.

Zechariah 7:9

Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

Deuteronomy 10:18

He does execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

Deuteronomy 24:17

You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.