Psalms 82

1 A PSALM OF ASAPH. God has stood in the congregation of God, He judges among the gods.

A Psalm for Asaph. God stands in the assembly of gods; and in the midst [of them] will judge gods.

2 Until when do you judge perversely? And lift up the face of the wicked? (Selah)

How long will you judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of sinners? (Pause)

3 Judge the weak and fatherless, Declare the afflicted and the poor righteous.

Judge the orphan and poor: do justice to the low and needy.

4 Let the weak and needy escape, Deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

Rescue the needy, and deliver the poor out of the hand of the sinner.

5 They did not know, nor do they understand, They habitually walk in darkness, All the foundations of earth are moved.

They know not, nor understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be shaken.

6 I have said, “You [are] gods, And sons of the Most High—all of you,

I have said, You are gods; and all [of you] children of the Most High.

7 But you die as man, and you fall as one of the heads.”

But you die as men, and fall as one of the princes.

8 Rise, O God, judge the earth, For You have inheritance among all the nations!

Arise, O God, judge the earth: for you shall inherit all nations.