Psalms

82 God stands in the divine convention,

pronounces judgment in the midst of gods.

2 “How long will you judge unfairly,

show favor to wrong-doers? (Selah)

3 Give judgment for poor man and orphan;

allow a downtrodden and impoverished man to be in the right.

4 Preserve a poor and needy man;

deliver him from wrong-doers’ hands.

5 They do not know; they do not perceive;

they walk in the dark;

all earth’s foundations give way.

6 I thought you were gods,

and sons of the Most High all of you;

7 But you shall die like human beings,

fall like any grandees.”

8 Rise, God; judge the earth;

for you are liege lord over all the nations.