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PSALM 82, by                    
First Line: God in the great assembly stands
Last Line: The nations all possess.


1 God in the great assembly stands
Of kings and lordly states;
Among the gods on both his hands
He judges and debates.
2 How long will ye pervert the right
With judgment false and wrong,
Favouring the wicked by your might,
Who thence grow bold and strong?
3 Regard the weak and fatherless,
Despatch the poor man's cause,
And raise the man in deep distress
By just and equal laws
4 Defend the poor and desolate,
And rescue from the hands
Of wicked men the low estate
Of him that help demands.
5 They know not nor will understand,
In darkness they walk on;
The earth's foundations all are moved
And out of order gone.
6 I said that ye were gods, yea all
The sons of God most high;
7 But ye shall die like men, and fall
As other princes die.
8 Rise God, judge thou the earth in might,
This wicked earth redress,
For thou art he who shalt by right
The nations all possess.





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