Psalm 82
A Psalm of Asaph.
God stands in the council of princes; he is a Judge among gods.
“How long will you give wrong judgment and accept the ungodly?
Defend the poor and fatherless; see that those who are in need and necessity have what is right.
Deliver the outcast and poor; save them from the hand of the ungodly.”
They will not learn nor understand, but walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
I have said, “You are gods, and you are all the children of the Most High;
But you shall die like mortals, and fall like one of the princes.”
Arise, O God, and judge the earth, for you shall take all nations for your inheritance.
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