Chapter 81

An exhortation to judges and men in power.

1. 1

   A psalm for Asaph.

2. 2

   How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the wicked?

3. 3

   Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor.

4. 4

   Rescue the poor; and deliver the needy out of the hand of the sinner.

5. 5

   They have not known nor understood; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be moved.

6. 6

   I have said: You are gods, and all of you the sons of the most High.

7. 7

   But you like men shall die: and shall fall like one of the princes.

8. 8

   Arise, O God, judge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherit among all the nations.