Psalms 82:3
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Psalms 82:3 in other translations
| BSB | Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed. |
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| WEB | “Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. |
| ASV | Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute. |
| YLT | Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous. |
| DARBY | Judge the poor and the fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and the destitute; |
| BBE | Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights. |
| Webster | Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. |
What does Psalms 82:3 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 82:1-5
Magistrates are the mighty in authority for the public good. Magistrates are the ministers of God's providence, for keeping up order and peace, and particularly in punishing evil-doers, and protecting those that do well. Good princes and good judges, who mean well, are under Divine direction; and bad ones, who mean ill, are under Divine restraint. The authority of God is to be submitted to, in those governors whom…
Psalms 82:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 82:3
- James 1:27
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.
- Psalms 10:18
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
- Jeremiah 22:3
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.
- Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
- Jeremiah 5:28
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.
- Deuteronomy 10:18
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
- Deuteronomy 24:17
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
- Jeremiah 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord.
- Isaiah 1:23
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.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Context
- Psalms 82:2
How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
- Psalms 82:3
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
- Psalms 82:4
Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalms 82:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Defended al pobre y al huérfano: haced justicia al afligido y al menesteroso. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Faites droit au misérable et à l’orphelin, faites justice à l’affligé et au nécessiteux. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Schaffet Recht dem Geringen und der Waise; dem Elenden und dem Armen lasset Gerechtigkeit widerfahren! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | quoniam ecce inimici tui sonuerunt, et qui oderunt te extulerunt caput. |