Psalms 82:4
2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
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.
6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked.
- KJV
- Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
- WEB
- Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”
- ASV
- Rescue the poor and needy: Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.
- DARBY
- Rescue the poor and needy, deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.
- BLB
- Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.
- ÅB
- Redd den ringe og trengende, frels ham fra de ugudeliges hånd!
- OTB
- Redd de svake og trengende;
Fri dem fra de ondes grep. - B1930
- Redd den ringe og trengende, frels ham fra de ugudeliges hånd!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
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;
Read in contextJob 5:15–16
But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Read in contextJob 29:12
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Read in contextPsalms 72:12–14
For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
Read in contextPsalms 140:12
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
Read in contextJob 29:16–17
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Read in contextNehemiah 5:1–13
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
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