8 Up! O God, come as judge of the earth; for all the nations are your heritage.
Make your request to me, and I will give you the nations for your heritage, and the farthest limits of the earth will be under your hand.
And at the sounding of the seventh angel there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will have rule for ever and ever.
Before the Lord, for he is come; he is come to be the judge of the earth; the earth will be judged in righteousness, and the peoples with unchanging faith.
Come up, Lord, in your wrath; be lifted up against my haters; be awake, my God, give orders for the judging.
Up! and come to our help, and give us salvation because of your mercy.
You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.
The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.
But as for me, I am looking to the Lord; I am waiting for the God of my salvation: the ears of my God will be open to me.
For this reason, go on waiting for me, says the Lord, till the day when I come up as a witness: for my purpose is to send for the nations and to get the kingdoms together, so that I may let loose on them my passion, even all my burning wrath: for all the earth will be burned up in the fire of my bitter passion.
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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,