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title: "Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "James Anderson"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Commentaries"
section: 102 of 159
url: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-the-psalms-volume-5/102/
cite: "John Calvin, tr. James Anderson, Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5, section 102. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-the-psalms-volume-5/102/"
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# Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5

*John Calvin, tr. James Anderson*

Calvin on the Psalms, volume 5 of 5.

## 102. Psalm 82

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[¶0] A Psalm of Asaph

[¶1] 1 God sitteth in the assembly of God: In the midst of the gods he will judge.

[¶2] 2 How long will ye judge unjustly? And the faces of the ungodly will ye lift up? Selah.

[¶3] 3 Judge the poor and the orphan; The helpless and the destitute justify ye.

[¶4] 4 Rescue the poor one and the afflicted one: From the hand of the ungodly ones deliver them

[¶5] 5 But they know not, neither do they understand any thing: In darkness they walk, Although moved are all the foundations of the earth.

[¶6] 6 As for me, I have said, “Ye are gods, “And children of the Most High all of you:

[¶7] 7 “Surely as a man ye shall die; “And as one [of the people,] O princes! ye shall fall.”

[¶8] 8 Arise, O God! judge the earth: For thou shalt inherit all nations.