Psalms 82:1
— A Psalm of Asaph. God hath stood in the company of God, In the midst God doth judge.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
In Context
2Till when do ye judge perversely? And the face of the wicked lift up? Selah.
Cross References
Exodus 18:21'And thou — thou dost provide out of all the people men of ability, fearing God, men of truth, hating dishonest gain, and hast placed [these] over them, heads of thousands, heads of hundreds, heads of fifties, and heads of tens,
Exodus 22:28'God thou dost not revile, and a prince among thy people thou dost not curse.
Psalms 50:1A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods — Jehovah — hath spoken, And He calleth to the earth From the rising of the sun unto its going in.
Psalms 58:11And man saith: 'Surely fruit [is] for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'
Psalms 138:1By David. I confess Thee, with all my heart, Before the gods I do praise Thee.
Isaiah 3:13Jehovah hath stood up to plead, And He is standing 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 →