Psalms 82:3
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
BSB
ASV
Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
KJV
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
the charge to earthly judges — defend the poor, the fatherless, the afflicted, the needy.
What the sin is they are here charged with; they judge unjustly, contrary to the rules of equity and the dictates of their consciences, giving judgment against those who have right on their side, out of malice and ill-will, or for those who have an unrighteous cause, out of favour and partial affection.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
James 1:27Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
leads to
Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?
Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of…
Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Through
Isaiah 1:17Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
leads to
He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.…