Psalm 82:4-6
Easy-to-Read Version
4 Help those who are poor and helpless.
Save them from those who are evil.
5 “They[a] don’t know what is happening.
They don’t understand!
They don’t know what they are doing.
Their world is falling down around them!”
6 I, God Most High, say,
“You are gods,[b] my own sons.
Footnotes
- Psalm 82:5 They This might mean that the poor don’t understand what is happening. Or it might mean that the “gods” or leaders don’t understand that they are ruining the world by not being fair and by not doing what is right.
- Psalm 82:6 gods Or “judges.”
Psalm 82:4-6
New International Version
4 Rescue the weak and the needy;
deliver them from the hand of the wicked.
5 “The ‘gods’ know nothing, they understand nothing.(A)
They walk about in darkness;(B)
all the foundations(C) of the earth are shaken.
6 “I said, ‘You are “gods”;(D)
you are all sons of the Most High.’
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