²⁰ Make them tremble in fear, O Lord.
    Let the nations know they are merely human. Interlude

⁶ I say, ‘You are gods;
    you are all children of the Most High.
⁷ But you will die like mere mortals
    and fall like every other ruler.’”

⁹ Common people are as worthless as a puff of wind,
    and the powerful are not what they appear to be.
If you weigh them on the scales,
    together they are lighter than a breath of air.

¹² For he breaks the pride of princes,
    and the kings of the earth fear him.

¹³ “This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
I will smash the idols^[a] of Egypt
    and the images at Memphis.^[b]
There will be no rulers left in Egypt;
    terror will sweep the land.

⁹ Will you then boast, ‘I am a god!’
    to those who kill you?
To them you will be no god
    but merely a man!