Psalms 82:2-8 ▼

2 How long will you judge unjustly And show partiality to the wicked? Selah.

3 Vindicate the weak and fatherless; Do justice and maintain the rights of the afflicted and destitute.

4 Rescue the weak and needy; Rescue them from the hand of the wicked.

5 The rulers do not know nor do they understand; They walk on in the darkness [of complacent satisfaction]; All the foundations of the earth [the fundamental principles of the administration of justice] are shaken.

6 I said, “You are gods; Indeed, all of you are sons of the Most High.

7 “Nevertheless you will die like men And fall like any one of the princes.”

8 Arise, O God, judge the earth! For to You belong all the nations.