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Psalm 82 – God the Upholder of Justice
A psalm of Asaph.
1 God has taken his stand
in the divine assembly:
in the midst of the gods he holds judgment.
2 “How long will you crookedly judge,
and favor the wicked?
Selah
3 Do right by the weak and the orphan,
acquit the innocent poor.
4 Rescue the weak and the needy,
save them from the hand of the wicked.
5 “They have neither knowledge nor insight,
in darkness they walk to and fro,
while the earth’s foundations totter.
6 It was I who appointed you gods,
children of the Most High all of you.
7 Yet like mortals you will surely die,
you will fall like any prince.”
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth,
for all nations are yours by inheritance.