Psalms 82:4 · KJV
“Deliver the poor and needy: rid {them} out of the hand of the wicked.”
— Psalms 82:4
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. {Defend: Heb. Judge}
They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. {out...: Heb. moved}
Psalms 82 — Context
How 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}
6I have said, Ye {are} gods; and all of you {are} children of the most High.
Cross References
Proverbs 24:11-12
If thou forbear to deliver {them that are} drawn unto death, and {those that are} ready to be slain;
Job 29:12
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and {him that had} none to help him.
Job 5:15-16
But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Psalms 72:12-14
For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and {him} that hath no helper.
Psalms 140:12
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, {and} the right of the poor.
Job 29:16-17
I {was} a father to the poor: and the cause {which} I knew not I searched out.
Nehemiah 5:1-13
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.