Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Defend the poor and fatherless, see that such as be in need and necessity have right.

New American Standard Bible

Vindicate the weak and fatherless;
Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Provide justice for the needy and the fatherless;
uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute.

International Standard Version

"Defend the poor and the fatherless. Vindicate the afflicted and the poor.

A Conservative Version

Judge the poor man and the orphan. Do justice to the afflicted and destitute man.

American Standard Version

Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

Amplified


Vindicate the weak and fatherless;
Do justice and maintain the rights of the afflicted and destitute.

Darby Translation

Judge the poor and the fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and the destitute;

Julia Smith Translation

Judge ye the poor one, and the orphan: do justice to the humble one and the poor one

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Judge [on behalf of the] helpless and [the] orphan; provide justice [to the] afflicted and [the] poor.

Modern King James verseion

Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy.

NET Bible

Defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless! Vindicate the oppressed and suffering!

New Heart English Bible

"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

The Emphasized Bible

Vindicate the weak and the fatherless, The oppressed and the poor, see righted;

Webster

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

World English Bible

"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Youngs Literal Translation

Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.

Context Readings

A Plea For Righteous Judgment

2 How long will ye give wrong judgment, and accept the persons of the ungodly? Selah. 3 Defend the poor and fatherless, see that such as be in need and necessity have right. 4 Deliver the outcast and poor, and save them from the hand of the ungodly.

Cross References

Psalm 10:18

to help the fatherless and the poor unto their right, that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them.

Jeremiah 22:16

Yea when he helped the oppressed and poor to their right, then prospered he well. From whence came this? But only because he had me before his eyes, sayeth the LORD.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus the LORD commandeth: Keep equity and righteousness, deliver the oppressed from the power of the violent: do not grieve nor oppress the stranger, the fatherless nor the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place.

Deuteronomy 10:18

but doeth right unto the fatherless and widow and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment.

Deuteronomy 24:17

Hinder not the right of the stranger nor of the fatherless, nor take widow's raiment to pledge.

Isaiah 1:17

Study to do righteously, and help the oppressed. Avenge the fatherless and defend the cause of widows. Come, let us show each his grief to other and make an atonement, saith the LORD.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes are traitors and companions of thieves. They love gifts altogether, and gape for rewards. As for the fatherless, they help him not to his right, neither will they let the widows causes come before them.

Jeremiah 5:28

hereof are they fat and wealthy, and are run away from me with shameful blasphemies. They minister not the law, they make no end of the fatherless cause, they judge not the poor according to equity.

James 1:27

Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.

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