Psalms 82:3
1 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
- KJV
- Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
- WEB
- “Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
- ASV
- Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
- DARBY
- Judge the poor and the fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and the destitute;
- BLB
- Judge for the weak and the fatherless; [for] the oppressed and needy bring justice.
- ÅB
- Døm den ringe og farløse, la den elendige og fattige få sin rett!
- OTB
- Forsvar de svake og farløse;
Oppretthold rettighetene til de plaget og fattige. - B1930
- Døm den ringe og farløse, la den elendige og fattige få sin rett!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
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.
Read in contextPsalms 10:18
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
Read in contextJeremiah 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.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:17
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Read in contextJeremiah 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.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 10:18
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 24:17
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
Read in contextJeremiah 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.
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