Psalms 82

KING JAMES BIBLE	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.	1 A Canticle Psalm of Asaph.
2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.	2 O God, who will ever be like you? Do not be silent, and do not be unmoved, O God.
3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.	3 For behold, your enemies have sounded off, and those who hate you have carried out a head.
4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.	4 They have acted with malice in counsel over your people, and they have plotted against your holy ones.
5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.	5 They have said, “Come, let us scatter them from the nations and not allow the name of Israel to be remembered any longer.”
6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.	6 For they plotted unanimously. Joined together against you, they ordained a covenant:
7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.	7 the tabernacle of Edomites and Ishmaelites, and Moab and the Hagarites,
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.	8 and Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, the foreigners among the inhabitants of Tyre.
	9 For even Assur comes with them. They have become the helpers of the sons of Lot.
	10 Do to them as you did to Midian and Sisera, just as to Jabin at the torrent of Kishon.
	11 They perished at Endor, and they became like the dung of the earth.
	12 Set their leaders to be like Oreb and Zeeb, and Zebah and Zalmunna: all their leaders
	13 who said, “Let us possess the Sanctuary of God for an inheritance.”
	14 My God, set them like a wheel, and like stubble before the face of the wind.
	15 Set them like a fire burning up the forest, and like a flame burning up the mountains.
	16 So will you pursue them in your tempest, and disturb them in your wrath.
	17 Fill their faces with shame, and they will seek your name, O Lord.
	18 Let them be ashamed and troubled, from age to age, and let them be confounded and perish.
	19 And let them know that the Lord is your name. You alone are the Most High in all the earth.