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Psalms 82:3
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Give justice to the poor and the orphan;Justify the afflicted and destitute.
Vindicate the weak and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
Iudge ryght vnto the poore and fatherlesse: dispatch according to iustice suche as be afflicted and in necessitie.
Judge the poor and the fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and the destitute;
Defend the poor and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Judge the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy.
"Defend the poor and orphans. Protect the rights of the poor.
"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
Defend the poore and fatherlesse: doe iustice to the afflicted and needie.
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Sela. Defende the poore & fatherlesse, se that soch as be in nede & necessite haue right.
Vindicate the weak and fatherless; Do justice and maintain the rights of the afflicted and destitute.
Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights.
Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless! Vindicate the oppressed and suffering!
Be fair to the poor and to orphans. Defend the helpless and everyone in need.
Give justice to the weak and fatherless! Uphold the rights of the wretched and poor!
Doe right to the poore and fatherlesse: doe iustice to the poore and needie.
Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy.
"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
Judge the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
Do the right thing for the weak and those without a father. Stand up for the rights of those who are suffering and in need.
Judge the orphan and poor: do justice to the low and needy.
Judge the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
Give justice to the weak and the orphan; maintain the right of the lowly and the destitute.
Vindicate the weak and the fatherless, The oppressed and the poor, see righted;
(81-3) Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor.
Judge on behalf of the helpless and the orphan; provide justice to the afflicted and the poor.
Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
Vindicate the weak and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
Defend the weak and the orphans; defend the rights of the poor and suffering.
Defend the rights of the poor and the orphans; be fair to the needy and the helpless.
Provide justice for the needy and the fatherless; uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute.
Deme ye to the nedi man, and to the modirles child; iustifie ye the meke man and pore.
Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.
Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
Contextual Overview
A psalm of Asaph.
God presides over heaven's court; he pronounces judgment on the heavenly beings: 2 "How long will you hand down unjust decisions by favoring the wicked? Interlude 3 "Give justice to the poor and the orphan; uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute. 4 Rescue the poor and helpless; deliver them from the grasp of evil people. 5 But these oppressors know nothing; they are so ignorant! They wander about in darkness, while the whole world is shaken to the core.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Defend: Heb. Judge, Psalms 10:18, Deuteronomy 10:18, Isaiah 1:17, Isaiah 1:23
do: Jeremiah 5:28, Jeremiah 22:3, Jeremiah 22:16, James 1:27
Reciprocal: Exodus 23:3 - General Exodus 23:6 - General Deuteronomy 1:17 - ye shall hear Deuteronomy 16:18 - Judges 1 Samuel 7:16 - in circuit 2 Samuel 23:3 - must be just 2 Kings 8:3 - General Job 6:27 - the fatherless Psalms 68:5 - A father Psalms 72:2 - thy poor Psalms 72:12 - For Proverbs 29:14 - king Proverbs 31:8 - Open Isaiah 16:3 - execute Jeremiah 7:6 - oppress Jeremiah 49:11 - thy fatherless
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Defend the poor and fatherless,.... Or, judge d them; such as have no money to enter and carry on a suit, and have no friends to assist and advise them, and abide by them; these should be taken under the care and wing of judges; their cause should be attended to, and justice done them; their persons should be protected, and their property defended and secured for, since they are called gods, they ought to imitate him whose name they bear, who is the Father of the fatherless, the Judge of the widows, and the helper of the poor that commit themselves to him, Psalms 10:14, such a righteous judge and good magistrate was Job; see Job 29:12,
do justice to the afflicted and needy; or "justify" e them, pronounce them righteous, give the cause for them, not right or wrong, nor because they are poor and needy, but because they are in the right; for, if wicked, they are not to be justified, this is an abomination to the Lord; see Leviticus 19:15.
d שפטו "judicate", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus, Junius & Tremellius, Gejerus, Michaelis. e הצדיקו "justificate", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Musculus, Cocceius, &c.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Defend the poor and fatherless - literally, judge; that is, Pronounce just judgment; see that right is done to them. This is required everywhere in the Scriptures. The meaning is not that judgment is to be pronounced in their favor because they are poor, or because they are orphans, for this would be to do what they had just been charged with as in itself wrong, accepting of persons; that is, showing favor on account of condition or rank, rather than on account of a just claim. The idea is, that the poor and the fatherless, having no natural protectors, were likely to be wronged or oppressed; that they had none to defend their claims; and that magistrates, therefore, as if they were their natural protectors, should see that their rights were maintained. See the notes at Isaiah 1:17.
Do justice to the afflicted and needy - See that justice is done them; that they are not wronged by persons of wealth, of power, and of rank. Such care does religion take of those who have no natural guardians. The poor and the needy - the widow and the fatherless - owe to the religion of the Bible a debt which no language can express.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 82:3. Defend the poor — You are their natural protectors under God. They are oppressed: punish their oppressors, however rich or powerful: and deliver them.
