Psalm 82:3

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Job 29:12

because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless, and him who had none to help him.

Job 31:21

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

Psalm 10:18

to judge the orphan and the oppressed; man on earth no longer trembles.

Exodus 23:3

You must not show partiality to a poor man in his dispute.

Exodus 23:6

You shall not turn justice away from your poor in his dispute.

Proverbs 31:9

Speak out, judge righteously, plead the cause of the poor and needy.

Isaiah 1:17

learn to do good; seek justice, relieve the oppressed; judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe and follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

Jeremiah 21:12

O house of David; thus says the Lord: Execute justice each morning, and deliver him who has been robbed from the hand of the oppressor, lest My fury go out like fire and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.

Jeremiah 22:16

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him. Is not this what it means to know Me? says the Lord.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver the robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. And do no wrong or violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 5:28

They are fat, they are sleek. Indeed, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They do not judge the cause of the fatherless, so that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they do not defend.

Zechariah 7:9

Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Execute true justice, show mercy and compassion, every man to his brother.

Deuteronomy 10:18

He executes the judgment of the orphan and the widow and loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

Deuteronomy 24:17

You must not pervert the justice of the foreigner or of the fatherless, nor take a widow’s cloak as a pledge.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.