Salmos 82:1-7

1 Salmo 82
Salmo de Asaf.
Dios preside la corte de los cielos;
pronuncia juicio en medio de los seres celestiales:

2 «¿Hasta cuándo dictarán decisiones injustas
que favorecen a los malvados?
Interludio

3 »Hagan justicia al pobre y al huérfano;
defiendan los derechos de los oprimidos y de los desposeídos.

4 Rescaten al pobre y al indefenso;
líbrenlos de las garras de los malvados.

5 Pero esos opresores no saben nada;
¡son tan ignorantes!
Andan errantes en la oscuridad
mientras el mundo entero se estremece hasta los cimientos.

6 Yo digo: “Ustedes son dioses;
son todos hijos del Altísimo.

7 Pero morirán como simples mortales
y caerán como cualquier otro gobernante”».

Salmos 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.