Psalm 82:4

Modern

Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked.

Traditional

Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

Literal

Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

Latin

Eripite pauperem, et egenum de manu peccatoris liberate.

Hebrew

English

Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked.

God condemns those who mistreat the helpless.

Theme notes and profiles

Proverbs 24:11–12
Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.
Job 5:15–16
He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.
Job 29:12
…because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
Psalm 140:12
I know that the LORD upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.
Psalm 72:12–14
For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.
Job 29:16–17
I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
Nehemiah 5:1–13
About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.