Psalms 82:4
Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalms 82:4 in other translations
| BSB | Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked. |
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| WEB | Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.” |
| ASV | Rescue the poor and needy: Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked. |
| YLT | Let the weak and needy escape, From the hand of the wicked deliver them. |
| DARBY | Rescue the poor and needy, deliver them out of the hand of the wicked. |
| BBE | Be the saviour of the poor and those who have nothing: take them out of the hand of the evil-doers. |
| Webster | Deliver the poor and needy: deliver them from the hand of the wicked. |
What does Psalms 82:4 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 82:3-4
3-4. So must good judges act (Psa 10:14; Job 29:12).
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 82:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 82:4
- Proverbs 24:11-12
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
- Job 5:15-16
But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
- Job 29:12
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
- Psalms 72:12-14
For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper. He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
- Psalms 140:12
I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
- Job 29:16-17
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
- Nehemiah 5:1-13
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live. Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth. There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards. …
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Context
- 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 82:5
They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
Psalms 82:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Librad al afligido y al necesitado: libradlo de mano de los impíos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Délivrez le misérable et le pauvre, sauvez-le de la main des méchants. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Befreiet den Geringen und den Dürftigen, errettet ihn aus der Hand der Gesetzlosen! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Super populum tuum malignaverunt consilium, et cogitaverunt adversus sanctos tuos. |