Psalm 82:1-8

A Melody of Asaph. 82  God hath taken his place in the august assembly, In the midst of the gods will he judge.  How long will ye judge perversely And the countenances of the lawless uplift? [Selah.  Vindicate the weak and the fatherless, The oppressed and the poor see righted;  Deliver the weak and the needy, Out of the hand of the lawless make rescue.  They know not, neither can they perceive, In darkness they wander, All the foundations of the earth do shake!  I said, Gods ye are, Yea sons of the Highest are ye all;  But indeed like the earth-born shall ye die! And like one of the princes shall ye fall!  Arise! O God, judge thou the earth, For thou wilt inherit all the nations.

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