Psalms 82 GNV
Summary: A striking courtroom vision: "God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods" (v. 1), rebuking corrupt rulers or divine beings entrusted with justice for favoring the wicked while failing to "defend the poor and fatherless" (v. 3). Though addressed with the exalted title "Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High" (v. 6), they are condemned to "die like men, and fall like one of the princes" for their injustice (v. 7). The psalm closes with a plea for God himself to rise and judge the earth, since all nations belong to him as his inheritance.
1A Psalme committed to Aspah. God standeth in the assemblie of gods: hee iudgeth among gods.
2How long wil ye iudge vniustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
3Doe right to the poore and fatherlesse: doe iustice to the poore and needie.
4Deliuer the poore and needie: saue them from the hand of the wicked.
5They knowe not and vnderstand nothing: they walke in darkenes, albeit all the foundations of the earth be mooued.
6I haue said, Ye are gods, and ye all are children of the most High.
7But ye shall die as a man, and yee princes, shall fall like others.
8O God, arise, therefore iudge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherite all nations.
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