Psalms 82:1
{A Psalm of Asaph.} God standeth in the assembly of God, he judgeth among the gods.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
In Context
2How long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the person of the wicked? Selah.
Cross References
Exodus 18:21But do thou provide among all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place [them] over them, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens,
Exodus 22:28Thou shalt not revile the judges, nor curse a prince amongst thy people.
Psalms 50:1{A Psalm. Of Asaph.} God, Elohim-Jehovah, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
Psalms 58:11And men shall say, Verily there is fruit for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Psalms 138:1{[A Psalm] of David.} I will give thee thanks with my whole heart; before the gods will I sing psalms of thee.
Isaiah 3:13Jehovah setteth himself to plead, and standeth to judge the peoples.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 82:1
This psalm is calculated for the meridian of princes' courts and courts of justice, not in Israel only, but in other nations; yet it was probably penned primarily for the use of the magistrates of Israel, the great Sanhedrim, and their other elders who were in places of power, and perhaps by David's direction. This psalm is designed to make kings wise, and "to instruct the judges of the earth" (as 2 and 10 ), to tell them their duty as ( 2 Sam. xxiii. 3 ), and to tell them of their faults as Ps. lviii. 1 . We have… Read the whole commentary →