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 hath stood in the congregation of gods: and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods.

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

How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the wicked?

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

Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor.

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

Rescue the poor; and deliver the needy 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 have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be moved.

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 the sons of the most High.

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

But you like men shall die: and shall fall like one of the princes.

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

Arise, O God, judge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherit among all the nations.