Psalms 82:3
“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
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Psalms 82:3
“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
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Psalms 82:2
“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.
Job 29:13
the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
Leviticus 19:15
“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
2 Chronicles 19:7
Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”
Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
Jeremiah 22:3
Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.
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Psalms 82:1
God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.
Psalms 82:5
They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Psalms 82:6
I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.
Psalms 82:7
Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers.”
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Psalms 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
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 unstained by the world.
Exodus 22:22
“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
Jeremiah 49:11
Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”
Hosea 14:3
Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
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Psalms 72:2
He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
Psalms 72:13
He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.
Psalms 72:14
He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.
Isaiah 11:4
but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
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Proverbs 21:13
Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
Proverbs 29:14
The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.
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