Psalm 82:3

Lighthouse Bible 2006

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 helper 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 favor a poor man in his cause.

Exodus 23:6

You shall not bend 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 do not judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Jeremiah 21:12

O house of David, thus says the LORD; Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is plundered out of the hand of the oppressor, so that my fury does not go forth like fire, and burn so 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? says the LORD.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the LORD; Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is plundered 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 have become fat, they glisten: yea, they exceed the deeds of the wicked: they do not judge 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 executes judgment for the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, in giving him food and clothing.

Deuteronomy 24:17

You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s clothing as a 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 oneself unspotted from the world.