How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the [a]wicked? Selah.

Do right to the poor and fatherless: do justice to the poor and needy.

Deliver the poor and [b]needy: save them from the hand of the wicked.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 82:2 For thieves and murderers find favor in judgment, when the cause of the godly cannot be heard.
  2. Psalm 82:4 Not only when they cry for help, but when their cause requireth aid and support.

“How long will you[a] defend the unjust
    and show partiality(A) to the wicked?[b](B)
Defend the weak and the fatherless;(C)
    uphold the cause of the poor(D) and the oppressed.
Rescue the weak and the needy;
    deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 82:2 The Hebrew is plural.
  2. Psalm 82:2 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.