Psalms

Chapter 81

  1. 1

    See, where he stands, the Ruler of all, among the rulers1 assembled, comes for-ward to pronounce judgement on the rulers themselves!

  2. 2

    Will you never cease perverting justice, espousing the cause of the wicked?

  3. 3

    Come, give redress to the poor and the friendless, do right to the afflicted and the destitute;

  4. 4

    to you need and poverty look for deliverance, rescue them from the hand of the wickedness.

  5. 5

    But no, ignorant and unperceiving, they grope their way in darkness; see how unstable are the props of earth!

  6. 6

    Gods you are, I myself have declared it; favoured children, every one of you, of the most High;

  7. 7

    yet the doom of mortals awaits you, you shall fall with the fall of human princes.

  8. 8

    Bestir thyself, Lord, bring the world to judgement; all the nations are thy own domain.