Psalms 82:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 10:18 : 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
  • Jer 22:16 : 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.
  • Deut 24:17 : 17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, [nor] of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
  • Jer 22:3 : 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.
  • Deut 10:18 : 18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
  • Jas 1:27 : 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.
  • Isa 1:17 : 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
  • Jer 5:28 : 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.

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    2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless!

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    18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

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    6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

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    22 ¶ Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

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    17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

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    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.

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    12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.

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    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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    13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

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