Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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.

Context Readings

A Plea For Righteous Judgment

2 Till when do ye judge perversely? And the face of the wicked lift up? Selah. 3 Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous. 4 Let the weak and needy escape, From the hand of the wicked deliver them.

Cross References

Psalm 10:18

To judge the fatherless and bruised: He addeth no more to oppress -- man of the earth!

Jeremiah 22:16

He decided the cause of the poor and needy, Then it is well -- is it not to know Me? An affirmation of Jehovah.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.

Deuteronomy 10:18

He is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner, to give to him bread and raiment.

Deuteronomy 24:17

'Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of a fatherless sojourner, nor take in pledge the garment of a widow;

Isaiah 1:17

Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive for the widow.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes are apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.

Jeremiah 5:28

They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless -- and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.

James 1:27

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.

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