2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
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2 How long will ye judge unjustly, And respect the persons of the wicked? Selah
2 Till when do ye judge perversely? And the face of the wicked lift up? Selah.
2 How long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the person of the wicked? Selah.
2 "How long will you judge unjustly, And show partiality to the wicked?" Selah.
2 How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us. Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
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Commentary on Psalms 82 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 82
This psalm is calculated for the meridian of princes' courts and courts of justice, not in Israel only, but in other nations; yet it was probably penned primarily for the use of the magistrates of Israel, the great Sanhedrim, and their other elders who were in places of power, and perhaps by David's direction. This psalm is designed to make kings wise, and "to instruct the judges of the earth' (as Psa 2 and 10), to tell them their duty as (2 Sa. 23:3), and to tell them of their faults as Psa 58:1. We have here,
Though magistrates may most closely apply this psalm to themselves, yet we may any of us sing it with understanding when we give glory to God, in singing it, as presiding in all public affairs, providing for the protection of injured innocency, and ready to punish the most powerful injustice, and when we comfort ourselves with a belief of his present government and with the hopes of his future judgment.
A psalm of Asaph.
Psa 82:1-5
We have here,
Psa 82:6-8
We have here,