Psalm 82
Brenton Septuagint Translation
Chapter overview
Psalm 82 indicts rulers who favor the wicked while the weak, orphaned, poor, and oppressed remain vulnerable. Their injustice shakes society's foundations, prompting an appeal for the true judge to restore right order.
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1A Song of a Psalm for Asaph.
2O God, who shall be compared to thee? be not silent, neither be still, O God.
3For behold, thine enemies have made a noise; and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
4Against thy people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against thy saints.
5They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all.
6For they have taken counsel together with one consent: they have made a confederacy against thee;
7even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites; Moab, and the Agarenes;
8Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre.
9Yea, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause.
10Do thou to them as to Madiam, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the brook of Kison.
11They were utterly destroyed at Aendor: they became as dung for the earth.
12Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee and Salmana; even all their princes:
13who said, Let us take to ourselves the altar of God as an inheritance.
14O my God, make them as a wheel; as stubble before the face of the wind.
15As fire which shall burn up a wood, as the flame may consume the mountains;
16so shalt thou persecute them with thy tempest, and trouble them in thine anger.
17Fill their faces with dishonour; so shall they seek thy name, O Lord.
18Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore; yea, let them be confounded and destroyed.
19And let them know that thy name is Lord; that thou alone art Most High over all the earth.
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