Psalm 82:1-7

1 Salmo de Asaf. Dios está en la congregación de los poderosos; en medio de los dioses juzga.

2 ¿Hasta cuándo juzgaréis injustamente, y aceptaréis las personas de los impíos? (Selah.)

3 Haced derecho al pobre y al huérfano; haced justicia al pobre y al menesteroso.

4 Librad al pobre y al menesteroso; libradlo de mano de los impíos.

5 No saben, no entienden, andan en tinieblas; vacilan todos los cimientos de la tierra.

6 Yo dije: Vosotros sois dioses. Y todos vosotros hijos del Altísimo.

7 Pero como hombres moriréis. Y caeréis como cualquiera de los tiranos.

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.