Psalms 82:3

Psalms chapter 82 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.2How long will ye judge unjustly, And respect the persons of the wicked? [Selah

v.3This passage

v.4Rescue the poor and needy: Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 10:18

    To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, That man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.

  • Jeremiah 22:16

    He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.

  • Deuteronomy 24:17

    Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to the sojourner, or to the fatherless, nor take the widow’s raiment to pledge;

  • Isaiah 1:23

    Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

  • James 1:27

    Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

  • Jeremiah 5:28

    They are waxed fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.