Psalms 82:3

World English Bible (2000)

"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 10:18 : 18 to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. For the Chief Musician. By David.
  • Jer 22:16 : 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.
  • Deut 24:17 : 17 You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;
  • Jer 22:3 : 3 Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
  • Deut 10:18 : 18 He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
  • Isa 1:17 : 17 Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."
  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
  • Jer 5:28 : 28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.

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    8Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

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    2"How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?" Selah.

  • Ps 72:4
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    4He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

  • Ps 140:12
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    12I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

  • Ps 10:18
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    18to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. For the Chief Musician. By David.

  • Ps 72:2
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    2He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

  • Exod 23:6
    77%

    6"You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

  • Prov 22:22-23
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    22Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;

    23for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

  • Isa 1:17
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    17Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."

  • Ps 72:12-13
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    12For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

    13He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.

  • Jer 22:3
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    3Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • Job 29:12
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    12Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,

  • Ps 41:1
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    1Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

  • Jer 22:16
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    16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.

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    14But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

  • Isa 3:13-14
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    13Yahweh stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples.

    14Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and their leaders: "It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.

  • Ps 74:21
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    21Don't let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

  • Job 36:15
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    15He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.

  • Jer 5:28
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    28They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.

  • Prov 29:14
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    14The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.

  • Prov 28:3
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    3A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

  • Prov 14:31
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    31He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

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    15"'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

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    31For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul. A Psalm by David.

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    6He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.

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    4Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

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    3neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

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    22"You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

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    1Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

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    9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Job 34:28
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    28so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

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    6Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.

  • Prov 29:7
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    7The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren't concerned about knowledge.

  • Job 24:9
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    9There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

  • Deut 27:19
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    19'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

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    5A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

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    15But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

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    6You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

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    17You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

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    10All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?"

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    5"Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."

  • Jer 20:13
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    13Sing to Yahweh, praise Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

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    16I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.