Psalm 82:3
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:17
Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow's cloak as security.

Psalm 10:18
to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.

Psalm 41:1
Blessed is he who cares for the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of trouble.

Psalm 72:2
May he judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted with justice.

Psalm 140:12
I know that the LORD upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.

Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow."

Isaiah 11:4
but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.

Jeremiah 22:16
He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?" declares the LORD.


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

defend.



Psalm 10:18
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.



Deuteronomy 10:18
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.



Isaiah 1:17,23
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow…

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Jeremiah 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.



Jeremiah 22:3,16
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, neither shed innocent blood in this place…



James 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.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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