Psalms 82:3 · KJV
“Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. {Defend: Heb. Judge}”
— Psalms 82:3
How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
Deliver the poor and needy: rid {them} out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalms 82 — Context
[A Psalm of Asaph.] God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods. {of Asaph: or, for Asaph}
2How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
3Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. {Defend: Heb. Judge}
4Deliver the poor and needy: rid {them} out of the hand of the wicked.
5They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. {out...: Heb. moved}
Cross References
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.
Psalms 10:18
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. {oppress: or, terrify}
Jeremiah 22:3
Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye 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: yea, 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.
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. {relieve: or, righten}
Jeremiah 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then {it was} well {with him: was} not this to know me? saith the LORD.
Deuteronomy 10:18
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Deuteronomy 24:17
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, {nor} of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: