Comment – Probably written in the pre-exile period, when justice was lacking, Psalm 82 begins by stating that God rises in the midst of the heavenly assembly of gods, understood as angels, and imposes his supremacy on the judges of the earth guilty of committing sentences unjust in favor of the wicked. The psalmist turns to God disconsolate, saying that the unjust judges do not understand and walk in the darkness, making all the foundations of the earth falter, undermining with this the good civil life, they are however men who pass.
Psalm 82 complete
[1] Psalm. Asaph God rises in the divine assembly, judges among the gods.
[2] “How long will you judge unfairly and support the part of the wicked?
[3] Defend the weak and the orphan, do justice to the poor and the poor.
[4] Save the weak and the destitute, free him from the hand of the wicked. "
[5] They do not understand, they do not want to understand, they advance in darkness; all the foundations of the earth falter.
[6] I said: "You are gods, you are all children of the Most High".
[7] Yet you will die like any man, you will fall like all the powerful.
[8] Arise, God, to judge the earth, for all nations belong to you.
