Chapter 82

-- A Psalm of Asaph.

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God hath stood in the company of God, In the midst God doth judge.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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