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Psalm 82:1-7

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1 Ein Psalm Asaphs. Gott steht in der Gemeinde Gottes und ist Richter unter den Göttern.
2 Wie lange wollt ihr unrecht richten und die Person der Gottlosen vorziehen? (Sela.)
3 Schaffet Recht dem Armen und dem Waisen und helfet dem Elenden und Dürftigen zum Recht.
4 Errettet den Geringen und Armen und erlöset ihn aus der Gottlosen Gewalt.
5 Aber sie lassen sich nicht sagen und achten's nicht; sie gehen immer hin im Finstern; darum müssen alle Grundfesten des Landes wanken.
6 Ich habe wohl gesagt: "Ihr seid Götter und allzumal Kinder des Höchsten";
7 aber ihr werdet sterben wie Menschen und wie ein Tyrann zugrunde gehen.

Psalm 82:1-7 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.

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