“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless.
Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Psalms 82:3 in context
Psalms 82:1–6
1
God presides in the great assembly.
He judges among the gods.
3
Selected verse
“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless.
Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
4
Rescue the weak and needy.
Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”
5
They don’t know, neither do they understand.
They walk back and forth in darkness.
All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
6
I said, “You are gods,
all of you are sons of the Most High.
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