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Psalms, Chapter 82

  
1. A Psalm. Of Asaph. God is in the meeting-place of God; he is judging among the gods.
  
2. How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)
  
3. Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights.
  
4. Be the saviour of the poor and those who have nothing: take them out of the hand of the evil-doers.
  
5. They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved.
  
6. I said, You are gods; all of you are the sons of the Most High:
  
7. But you will come to death like men, falling like one of the rulers of the earth.
  
8. Up! O God, come as judge of the earth; for all the nations are your heritage.