Psalms 82:4

World English Bible (2000)

Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked."

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  • Neh 5:1-9 : 1 Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews. 2 For there were that said, "We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live." 3 Some also there were that said, "We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine." 4 There were also some who said, "We have borrowed money for the king's tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral. 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. Neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards." 6 I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. 7 Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, "You exact usury, everyone of his brother." I held a great assembly against them. 8 I said to them, "We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?" Then they held their peace, and found never a word. 9 Also I said, "The thing that you do is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies? 10 I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury. 11 Please restore to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them." 12 Then they said, "We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say." Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise. 13 Also I shook out my lap, and said, "So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn't perform this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied." All the assembly said, "Amen," and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.
  • Job 5:15-16 : 15 But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty. 16 So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
  • Job 29:12 : 12 Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,
  • Job 29:16-17 : 16 I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out. 17 I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
  • Ps 72:12-14 : 12 For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper. 13 He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy. 14 He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.
  • Prov 24:11-12 : 11 Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter! 12 If you say, "Behold, we didn't know this;" doesn't he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn't he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?
  • Ps 140:12 : 12 I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

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

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

  • Job 24:4
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    4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

  • Ps 71:4
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    4 Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

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

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

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

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

  • Job 5:15
    77%

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

  • Isa 10:2
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    2 to 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!

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

  • Prov 31:8-9
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    76%

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

    9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy."

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

  • Job 29:12
    75%

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

  • Ps 35:10
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    10 All 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?"

  • Amos 8:4
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    4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

  • Ps 10:14
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    14 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

  • Job 36:6
    74%

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

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

  • Ps 140:4
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    4 Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.

  • Prov 29:7
    74%

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

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

  • Jer 15:21
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    21 I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.

  • Ps 10:2
    73%

    2 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

  • Ps 82:5
    73%

    5 They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

  • Ps 37:14
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    14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

  • Exod 23:6
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    6 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

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

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

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

  • Ps 140:1
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    1 Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man;

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    23 or, 'Deliver me from the adversary's hand?' or, 'Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?'

  • Job 22:30
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    30 He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."

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    17 The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

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    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.

  • Ps 129:4
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    4 Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

  • Isa 42:22
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    22 But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become a prey, and no one delivers; and a spoil, and no one says, 'Restore them!'

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    11 Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  • Ps 12:5
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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."

  • Ps 9:18
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    18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

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

  • Ps 37:40
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    40 Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him. A Psalm by David, for a memorial.

  • Job 16:11
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    11 God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

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

  • Ps 34:19
    71%

    19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

  • Ps 109:31
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    31 For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul. A Psalm by David.

  • Ps 43:1
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    1 Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

  • Job 22:9
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    9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Jer 5:28
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    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.