Psalms 82
82
True Justice
Asaph’s poetic song
1All rise! For God now comes to judge
as he convenes heaven’s courtroom. # 82:1 Or “the council of El.” The Aramaic reads “God now stands in the assembly of the angels, and he will judge in their midst.”
He judges every judge and rules in the midst of the gods, saying,
2“How long will you judges refuse to listen
to the voice of true justice and continue to corrupt what is right
by judging in favor of the wrong?”
Pause in his presence
3“Defend the defenseless, the fatherless and the forgotten,
the disenfranchised and the destitute.
4Your duty is to deliver the poor and the powerless;
liberate them from the grasp of the wicked.
5But you continue in your darkness and ignorance
while the foundations of society are shaken to the core!
6Didn’t I commission you as judges, saying,
‘You are all like gods, since you judge on my behalf.
You are all like sons of the Most High, my representatives.’
7Nevertheless, in death you are nothing but mere men!
You will be laid in the ground like any prince and you will die.”
8All rise! For God now takes his place as judge of all the earth.
Don’t you know that everything and everyone belongs to him?
The nations will be sifted in his hands!
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82
Rescue the Weak and Needy
A Psalm of #See Ps. 50, titleAsaph.
1 # [2 Chr. 19:5, 6; Eccles. 5:8] God #Isa. 3:13 has taken his place in the divine council;
in the midst of #[1 Sam. 28:13] the gods he #See Ps. 58:11holds judgment:
2“How long will you judge unjustly
and #Deut. 1:17 show partiality to #Prov. 18:5the wicked? Selah
3 #
Ps. 10:18 Give justice to #Ps. 41:1 the weak and the fatherless;
#
Jer. 22:3
maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
4 #
Job 29:12 Rescue the weak and the needy;
#
Prov. 24:11
deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”
5 # [Mic. 3:1]; See Ps. 14:4 They have neither knowledge nor understanding,
#
Prov. 2:13 they walk about in darkness;
# See Ps. 11:3 all the foundations of the earth are #Ps. 10:6shaken.
6 # ver. 1; Cited John 10:34 I said, “You are gods,
sons of the Most High, all of you;
7nevertheless, like men #Ps. 49:12; Job 21:32; Ezek. 31:14; See Ezek. 28:2-10you shall die,
and fall like any prince.”#82:7 Or fall as one man, O princes
8 # See Ps. 12:5 Arise, O God, judge the earth;
for you shall #Ps. 2:8; [Rev. 11:15]inherit all the nations!
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