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3Defend{H8798)} the poor and fatherless: do justice{H8685)} to the afflicted and needy{H8802)}.
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Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)We have here, I. God’s supreme presidency and power in all councils and courts asserted and laid down, as a great truth necessary to be believed both by princes and subjects (Ps. 82:1): God stands , as chief director, in the congregation of the mighty , the mighty One, in coetu fortis—in the councils of the prince , the supreme magistrate, and he judges among the gods, the inferior magistrates; bo…
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