Psalms 82

1A psalm of Asaph.God stands in the divine assembly,pronouncing judgment among the divine beings.

2How long will you judge perversely,showing favor to the wicked? Selah.

3Judge the wretched and the orphan,vindicate the lowly and the poor,

4rescue the wretched and the needy;save them from the hand of the wicked.

5They neither know nor understand,they go about in darkness;all the foundations of the earth totter.

6I had taken you for divine beings,attendants of the Most High, all of you;

7but you shall die as mortals do,fall like any prince.

8Arise, O God, judge the earth,for all the nations are Your possession.