Psalm 82:1-10

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

Psalm 82:1-10 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.