Psalms 82

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

A Psalme committed to Aspah. God standeth in the assemblie of gods: hee iudgeth among gods.

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

How long wil ye iudge vniustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? (Selah)

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

Doe right to the poore and fatherlesse: doe iustice to the poore and needie.

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

Deliuer the poore and needie: saue them from the hand of the wicked.

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

They knowe not and vnderstand nothing: they walke in darkenes, albeit all the foundations of the earth be mooued.

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

I haue said, Ye are gods, and ye all are children of the most High.

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

But ye shall die as a man, and yee princes, shall fall like others.

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

O God, arise, therefore iudge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherite all nations.