Psalm 82:4-6
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
4 Rescue the lowly and poor;
deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”(A)
II
5 [a]The gods neither know nor understand,
wandering about in darkness,
and all the world’s foundations shake.
6 I declare: “Gods though you be,[b](B)
offspring of the Most High all of you,
Footnotes
- 82:5 The gods are blind and unable to declare what is right. Their misrule shakes earth’s foundations (cf. Ps 11:3; 75:4), which God made firm in creation (Ps 96:10).
- 82:6 I declare: “Gods though you be”: in Jn 10:34 Jesus uses the verse to prove that those to whom the word of God is addressed can fittingly be called “gods.”
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