5 They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, And rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice?
If the foundations are destroyed, What can the righteous do?
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And don't call on Yahweh?
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
However God's firm foundation stands, having this seal, "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let every one who names the name of the Lord{TR reads "Christ" instead of "the Lord"} depart from unrighteousness."
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
For the vineyard of Yahweh of Hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah his pleasant plant: And he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; For righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness--and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.
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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,