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II

[a]The gods neither know nor understand,
    wandering about in darkness,
    and all the world’s foundations shake.
I declare: “Gods though you be,[b](A)
    offspring of the Most High all of you,
Yet like any mortal you shall die;
    like any prince you shall fall.”

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Footnotes

  1. 82:5 The gods are blind and unable to declare what is right. Their misrule shakes earth’s foundations (cf. Ps 11:3; 75:4), which God made firm in creation (Ps 96:10).
  2. 82:6 I declare: “Gods though you be”: in Jn 10:34 Jesus uses the verse to prove that those to whom the word of God is addressed can fittingly be called “gods.”

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

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

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