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4Deliver{H8761)} the poor and needy: rid{H8685)} them out of the hand of the wicked.

Psalms 82:4

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  • If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; …

  • Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

  • But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. …

  • For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper. …

  • I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. …

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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