“How long will you[a] defend the unjust
    and show partiality(A) to the wicked?[b](B)
Defend the weak and the fatherless;(C)
    uphold the cause of the poor(D) and the oppressed.
Rescue the weak and the needy;
    deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

“The ‘gods’ know nothing, they understand nothing.(E)
    They walk about in darkness;(F)
    all the foundations(G) of the earth are shaken.

“I said, ‘You are “gods”;(H)
    you are all sons of the Most High.’
But you will die(I) like mere mortals;
    you will fall like every other ruler.”

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 82:2 The Hebrew is plural.
  2. Psalm 82:2 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.

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