Psalm 82:4-5

Rescue the Weak and Needy

4 w Rescue the weak and the needy;
x deliver them from the hand of the wicked."

5 y They have neither knowledge nor understanding,
z they walk about in darkness;
a all the foundations of the earth are b shaken.

  1. Cross References
    Job 29:12
    Because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.
  2. Cross References
    Proverbs 24:11
    Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.
  3. Cross References
    Micah 3:1
    And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice? -
    Psalms 14:4
    Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord ?
  4. Cross References
    Proverbs 2:13
    Who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness.
  5. Cross References
    Psalms 11:3
    If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?
  6. Cross References
    Psalms 10:6
    He says in his heart, "I shall not be moved; throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity.
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