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Psalm 82 Bible in Basic English

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  • Scholarly edition
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew (not verified)
  • NT: Critical text (not verified)
  • Protestant (66 books)
  • Simplified language
  • 1965
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BBE Bible in Basic English
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
1 A Psalm. Of Asaph. God is in the meeting-place of God; he is judging among the gods.
1 Salmo de Asaph. DIOS está en la reunión de los dioses; en medio de los dioses juzga.
2 How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)
2 ¿Hasta cuándo juzgaréis injustamente, y aceptaréis las personas de los impíos? (Selah.)
3 Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights.
3 Defended al pobre y al huérfano: haced justicia al afligido y al menesteroso.
4 Be the saviour of the poor and those who have nothing: take them out of the hand of the evil-doers.
4 Librad al afligido y al necesitado: libradlo de mano de los impíos.
5 They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved.
5 No saben, no entienden, andan en tinieblas: vacilan todos los cimientos de la tierra.
6 I said, You are gods; all of you are the sons of the Most High:
6 Yo dije: Vosotros sois dioses, é hijos todos vosotros del Altísimo.
7 But you will come to death like men, falling like one of the rulers of the earth.
7 Empero como hombres moriréis, y caeréis como cualquiera de los tiranos.
8 Up! O God, come as judge of the earth; for all the nations are your heritage.
8 Levántate, oh Dios, juzga la tierra: porque tú heredarás en todas las gentes.
Cross references (8)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 John 10:35; 2 Chronicles 19:6–7; Psalm 82:6–7; Isaiah 3:13; Psalm 58:11
  2. 2 Deuteronomy 1:17; Proverbs 18:5; Psalm 58:1–2; Exodus 10:3; Galatians 2:6
  3. 3 James 1:27; Psalm 10:18; Jeremiah 22:3; Isaiah 1:17; Jeremiah 5:28
  4. 4 Proverbs 24:11–12; Job 5:15–16; Job 29:12; Psalm 72:12–14; Psalm 140:12
  5. 5 Romans 1:28; Psalm 11:3; Proverbs 2:13; Micah 3:1; John 3:19
  6. 6 John 10:34–36; Psalm 82:1
  7. 7 Psalm 49:12; Ezekiel 31:14; Psalm 83:11; Job 21:32
  8. 8 Revelation 11:15; Psalm 2:8; Psalm 96:13; Psalm 22:28; Psalm 102:13

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

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What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm LXXXI)

    No such thing did ye hear in this when it was reading. Therefore take the presses for the mystery of the Church, which is now transacting. In the presses we observe three things, pressure, and of the pressure two things, one to be laid up, the other to be thrown away.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 82:1 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter VI)

    And again: "God stood in the congregation of the gods, He judges among the gods." He [here] refers to the Father and the Son, and those who have received the adoption; but these are the Church.

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  3. Quotes verse 82:6 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book IX, Chapter 23)

    … it from us to say that "great King above all gods" means "great King above all demons." But the same Scripture also calls men who belong to God's people "gods:" "I have said, Ye are gods, and all of you children of the Most High." Accordingly, when God is styled God of gods, this may be understood of these gods; …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  4. Quotes verse 82:6 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XI)

    To others also the Scripture says, Ye are the sons of the Lord your God: and in another place, I have said, Ye are gods, and ye are all sons of the Most High.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)

  5. Quotes verse 82:6 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter VI)

    [Of those] to whom He says, "I have said, Ye are gods, and all sons of the Most High." To those, no doubt, who have received the grace of the "adoption, by which we cry, Abba Father."

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)