Psalm 82

Unjust Judgments Rebuked.

A Psalm of Asaph.

  1 God takes His astand in 1His own congregation;

He bjudges in the midst of the 2crulers.

  2 How long will you ajudge unjustly

And bshow partiality to the wicked? 1Selah.

  3 aVindicate the weak and fatherless;

Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

  4 aRescue the weak and needy;

Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.

  5 They ado not know nor do they understand;

They bwalk about in darkness;

All the cfoundations of the earth are shaken.

  6 1I asaid, “You are gods,

And all of you are bsons of the Most High.

  7 “Nevertheless ayou will die like men

And fall like any bone of the princes.”

  8 aArise, O God, bjudge the earth!

For it is You who cpossesses all the nations.