Psalms, 81
1. (A psalm. Of Asaph.) See, where he stands, the Ruler of all, among the rulers✻ assembled, comes for-ward to pronounce judgement on the rulers themselves!
2. Will you never cease perverting justice, espousing the cause of the wicked?
3. Come, give redress to the poor and the friendless, do right to the afflicted and the destitute;
4. to you need and poverty look for deliverance, rescue them from the hand of the wickedness.
5. But no, ignorant and unperceiving, they grope their way in darkness; see how unstable are the props of earth!
6. Gods you are, I myself have declared it; favoured children, every one of you, of the most High;✻
7. yet the doom of mortals awaits you, you shall fall with the fall of human princes.
8. Bestir thyself, Lord, bring the world to judgement; all the nations are thy own domain.
