Psalms 82:3
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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12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
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16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.