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82.2 :And respect the persons of the wicked?
 * Judge the poor and fatherless;
 * Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
 * Rescue the poor and needy;
 * Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.
 * They know not, neither do they understand;
 * They go about in darkness;
 * All the foundations of the earth are moved.
 * I said: Ye are godlike beings,
 * And all of you sons of the Most High.
 * Nevertheless ye shall die like men,
 * And fall like one of the princes.'


 * Arise, O God, judge the earth;
 * For Thou shalt possess all the nations.

A Song, a Psalm of Asaph.


 * O God, keep not Thou silence;
 * Hold not Thy peace, and be not still, O God.
 * For, lo, Thine enemies are in an uproar;
 * And they that hate Thee have lifted up the head.
 * They hold crafty converse against Thy people,
 * And take counsel against Thy treasured ones.
 * They have said: 'Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation;
 * That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.'
 * For they have consulted together with one consent;
 * Against Thee do they make a covenant;
 * The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;
 * Moab, and the Hagrites;
 * Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;
 * Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
 * Assyria also is joined with them;
 * They have been an arm to the children of Lot.


 * Do Thou unto them as unto Midian;
 * As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook Kishon;
 * Who were destroyed at En-dor;
 * They became as dung for the earth.
 * Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
 * And like Zebah and Zalmunna all their princes;
 * Who said: 'Let us take to ourselves in possession
 * The habitations of God.'
 * O my God, make them like the whirling dust;
 * As stubble before the wind.
 * As the fire that burneth the forest,
 * And as the flame that setteth the mountains ablaze;
 * So pursue them with Thy tempest,
 * And affright them with Thy storm.
 * Fill their faces with shame;
 * That they may seek Thy name, O LORD.
 * Let them be ashamed and affrighted for ever;
 * Yea, let them be abashed and perish;
 * That they may know that it is Thou alone whose name is the LORD,
 * The Most High over all the earth.

For the Leader; upon the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.


 * How lovely are Thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
 * My soul yearneth, yea, even pineth for the courts of the LORD;
 * My heart and my flesh sing for joy unto the living God.