Psalms 82:1-11

1 canticum psalmi Asaph

2 Deus quis similis erit tibi ne taceas neque conpescaris Deus

3 quoniam ecce inimici tui sonaverunt et qui oderunt te extulerunt caput

4 super populum tuum malignaverunt consilium et cogitaverunt adversus sanctos tuos

5 dixerunt venite et disperdamus eos de gente et non memoretur nomen Israhel ultra

6 quoniam cogitaverunt unianimiter simul adversum te testamentum disposuerunt

7 tabernacula Idumeorum et Ismahelitae Moab et Aggareni

8 Gebal et Ammon et Amalech alienigenae cum habitantibus Tyrum

9 etenim Assur venit cum illis facti sunt in adiutorium filiis Loth diapsalma

10 fac illis sicut Madiam et Sisarae sicut Iabin in torrente Cison

11 disperierunt in Endor facti sunt ut stercus terrae

Psalms 82:1-11 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 82

\\<>\\. This psalm was written for the use of persons in power, for the instruction of kings and princes, judges and civil magistrates; according to Kimchi, it was written about the times of Jehoshaphat, who appointed new judges throughout the land; those that were before having been very corrupt, to whom he gave a charge agreeably to the purport of this psalm, 2Ch 19:5-7, but it seems rather to be written by Asaph, in the times of David, under a spirit of prophecy, and has respect to the times of Christ, when there was a great corruption among the judges and rulers of the Jews, both civil and ecclesiastic. The Syriac version calls it, "a reproof of the ungodly Jews"; our Lord cites a passage out of it in vindication of himself from their charge of blasphemy, Joh 10:34-36.