Psalms 82

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

Psalmus Asaph. Deus stetit in synagoga deorum: in medio autem deos diiudicat.

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

Usquequo iudicatis iniquitatem: et facies peccatorum sumitis?

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

Iudicate egeno, et pupillo: humilem, et pauperem iustificate.

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

Eripite pauperem: et egenum de manu peccatoris liberate.

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

Nescierunt, neque intellexerunt, in tenebris ambulant: movebuntur omnia fundamenta terrae.

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

Ego dixi: Dii estis, et filii excelsi omnes.

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

Vos autem sicut homines moriemini: et sicut unus de principibus cadetis.

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

Surge Deus, iudica terram: quoniam tu hereditabis in omnibus Gentibus.