Psalms 82

1 Of Asaph. God stood in the synagoge of goddis; forsothe he demeth goddis in the myddil.

— A Psalm of Asaph. God hath stood in the company of God, In the midst God doth judge.

2 Hou longe demen ye wickidnesse; and taken the faces of synneris?

Till when do ye judge perversely? And the face of the wicked lift up? (Selah)

3 Deme ye to the nedi man, and to the modirles child; iustifie ye the meke man and pore.

Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.

4 Raueische ye out a pore man; and delyuere ye the nedi man fro the hond of the synner.

Let the weak and needy escape, From the hand of the wicked deliver them.

5 Thei knewen not, nether vndirstoden, thei goen in derknessis; alle the foundementis of erthe schulen be moued.

They knew not, nor do they understand, In darkness they walk habitually, Moved are all the foundations of earth.

6 I seide, Ye ben goddis; and alle ye ben the sones of hiy God.

I — I have said, 'Gods ye [are], And sons of the Most High — all of you,

7 But ye schulen die as men; and ye schulen falle doun as oon of the princis.

But as man ye die, and as one of the heads ye fall,

8 Ryse, thou God, deme thou the erthe; for thou schalt haue eritage in alle folkis.

Rise, O God, judge the earth, For Thou hast inheritance among all the nations!