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Psalms 82:3

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

KJV

quoniam ecce inimici tui sonuerunt, et qui oderunt te extulerunt caput.

Vulgate

ὅτι ἰδοὺ οἱ ἐχθροί σου ἤχησαν, καὶ οἱ μισοῦντές σε ἦραν κεφαλήν·

LXX

Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

ASV

שִׁפְטוּ דַ֥ל וְ/יָת֑וֹם עָנִ֖י וָ/רָ֣שׁ הַצְדִּֽיקוּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

דַּלִּ֔ים
dlym
adjective · 47×
הַצְדִּ֣יק
htsdyq
verb · 41×
יָּת֥וֹם
ytvm
noun · 42×
נוּ
nv
verb · 199×
עָנִ֣י
'ny
adjective · 77×
רָ֣שׁ
rsh
verb · 24×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Sam 23:3 — The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
  • Deut 10:18 — He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
  • Deut 24:17 — Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
  • Isa 1:17 — Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
  • Isa 1:17 — Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
  • Isa 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.
  • Jas 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.
  • Jer 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.
  • Jer 7:6 — If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
  • Jer 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, ne
  • Jer 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.
  • Jer 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.
  • Jer 49:11 — Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
  • Prov 31:8 — Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
  • Ps 10:18 — To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
  • Ps 10:18 — To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
  • Ps 41:1 — Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
  • Ps 68:5 — A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
  • Ps 72:12 — For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.