Psalm 82
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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 PSALM OF ASAPH. God has stood in the congregation of God, || He judges among the gods.
2Until when do you judge perversely? And lift up the face of the wicked? Selah.
3Judge the weak and fatherless, || Declare the afflicted and the poor righteous.
4Let the weak and needy escape, || Deliver them from the hand of the wicked.
5They did not know, nor do they understand, || They habitually walk in darkness, || All the foundations of earth are moved.
6I have said, “You [are] gods, || And sons of the Most High—all of you,
7But you die as man, and you fall as one of the heads.”
8Rise, O God, judge the earth, || For You have inheritance among all the nations!
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