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Darby's French Translation

Psaumes 82:3

Faites droit au misérable et à l'orphelin, faites justice à l'affligé et au nécessiteux.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Judge;   Justice;   Orphan;   Poor;   Rulers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Justice;   Justice-Injustice;   Needy, the;   Poor, the;   Poverty-Riches;   Social Duties;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflicted, Duty toward the;   Fatherless;   Poor, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Judgment;   Poor;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Testimony;   Wealth;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Fatherless;   Loan;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Gods;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Angel;   Fatherless;   Justice;  

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Faites droit au faible et à l'orphelin; rendez justice au misérable et au pauvre.
Louis Segond (1910)
Rendez justice au faible et à l'orphelin, Faites droit au malheureux et au pauvre,
La Bible David Martin (1744)
Faites droit à celui qu'on opprime, et à l'orphelin; faites justice à l'affligé et au pauvre;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Defend: Heb. Judge, Psalms 10:18, Deuteronomy 10:18, Isaiah 1:17, Isaiah 1:23

do: Jeremiah 5:28, Jeremiah 22:3, Jeremiah 22:16, James 1:27

Reciprocal: Exodus 23:3 - General Exodus 23:6 - General Deuteronomy 1:17 - ye shall hear Deuteronomy 16:18 - Judges 1 Samuel 7:16 - in circuit 2 Samuel 23:3 - must be just 2 Kings 8:3 - General Job 6:27 - the fatherless Psalms 68:5 - A father Psalms 72:2 - thy poor Psalms 72:12 - For Proverbs 29:14 - king Proverbs 31:8 - Open Isaiah 16:3 - execute Jeremiah 7:6 - oppress Jeremiah 49:11 - thy fatherless

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Defend the poor and fatherless,.... Or, judge d them; such as have no money to enter and carry on a suit, and have no friends to assist and advise them, and abide by them; these should be taken under the care and wing of judges; their cause should be attended to, and justice done them; their persons should be protected, and their property defended and secured for, since they are called gods, they ought to imitate him whose name they bear, who is the Father of the fatherless, the Judge of the widows, and the helper of the poor that commit themselves to him, Psalms 10:14, such a righteous judge and good magistrate was Job; see Job 29:12,

do justice to the afflicted and needy; or "justify" e them, pronounce them righteous, give the cause for them, not right or wrong, nor because they are poor and needy, but because they are in the right; for, if wicked, they are not to be justified, this is an abomination to the Lord; see Leviticus 19:15.

d שפטו "judicate", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus, Junius & Tremellius, Gejerus, Michaelis. e הצדיקו "justificate", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Musculus, Cocceius, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Defend the poor and fatherless - literally, judge; that is, Pronounce just judgment; see that right is done to them. This is required everywhere in the Scriptures. The meaning is not that judgment is to be pronounced in their favor because they are poor, or because they are orphans, for this would be to do what they had just been charged with as in itself wrong, accepting of persons; that is, showing favor on account of condition or rank, rather than on account of a just claim. The idea is, that the poor and the fatherless, having no natural protectors, were likely to be wronged or oppressed; that they had none to defend their claims; and that magistrates, therefore, as if they were their natural protectors, should see that their rights were maintained. See the notes at Isaiah 1:17.

Do justice to the afflicted and needy - See that justice is done them; that they are not wronged by persons of wealth, of power, and of rank. Such care does religion take of those who have no natural guardians. The poor and the needy - the widow and the fatherless - owe to the religion of the Bible a debt which no language can express.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 82:3. Defend the poor — You are their natural protectors under God. They are oppressed: punish their oppressors, however rich or powerful: and deliver them.


 
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