Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”
Parallel translations
- KJV Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
- BSB Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked.
- NKJV Deliver the poor and needy; Free them from the hand of the wicked.
- NASB Rescue the weak and needy; Save them from the hand of the wicked.
- NLT Rescue the poor and helpless; deliver them from the grasp of evil people.
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Cross-references · 7
- Prov 24:11–12Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
- Job 5:15–16But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
- Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
- Ps 72:12–14For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.
- Ps 140:12I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
- Job 29:16–17I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn’t know, I searched out.
- Neh 5:1–13Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
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