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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PSALM 82.
1A canticle of a psalm for Asaph.
2O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be thou still, O God.
3For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
4They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy saints.
5They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.
6For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a covenant together against thee,
7the tabernacles of the Edomites, and the Ismahelites: Moab, and the Agarens,
8Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre.
9Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with them: they are come to the aid of the sons of Lot.
10Do to them as thou didst to Madian and to Sisara: as to Jabin at the brook of Cisson.
11Who perished at Endor: and became as dung for the earth.
12Make their princes like Oreb, and Zeb, and Zebee, and Salmana. All their princes,
13who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an inheritance.
14O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind.
15As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning mountains:
16So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble them in thy wrath.
17Fill their faces with shame; and they shall seek thy name, O Lord.
18Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: and let them be confounded and perish.
19And let them know that the Lord is thy name: thou alone art the most High over all the earth.
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