Psalms 82

¹-- A Psalm of Asaph. God hath stood in the company of God, In the midst God doth judge.

²Till when do ye judge perversely? And the face of the wicked lift up? Selah.

³Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.

⁴Let the weak and needy escape, From the hand of the wicked deliver them.

⁵They knew not, nor do they understand, In darkness they walk habitually, Moved are all the foundations of earth.

⁶I -- I have said, `Gods ye `are', And sons of the Most High -- all of you,

⁷But as man ye die, and as one of the heads ye fall,

⁸Rise, O God, judge the earth, For Thou hast inheritance among all the nations!