[a]Defend the poor and fatherless;
Do justice to the afflicted and (A)needy.
Deliver the poor and needy;
Free them from the hand of the wicked.

They do not know, nor do they understand;
They walk about in darkness;
All the (B)foundations of the earth are [b]unstable.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 82:3 Vindicate
  2. Psalm 82:5 moved

Defend the weak and the fatherless;(A)
    uphold the cause of the poor(B) and the oppressed.
Rescue the weak and the needy;
    deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

“The ‘gods’ know nothing, they understand nothing.(C)
    They walk about in darkness;(D)
    all the foundations(E) of the earth are shaken.

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