Psalms 82

1 God gathers all the [rulers and judges who think they are] gods for a meeting in heaven; and he tells them that he has decided this:

Of Asaph. God stood in the synagoge of goddis; forsothe he demeth goddis in the myddil.

2 “You must [RHQ] stop judging [people] unfairly; you must no longer make decisions that favor wicked [people]!

Hou longe demen ye wickidnesse; and taken the faces of synneris?

3 You must defend [people who are] poor and orphans; you must act fairly toward those who are needy and those who have no one to help them.

Deme ye to the nedi man, and to the modirles child; iustifie ye the meke man and pore.

4 Rescue them from the power [MTY] of evil [people] [DOU]!”

Raueische ye out a pore man; and delyuere ye the nedi man fro the hond of the synner.

5 [Those rulers] do not know or understand anything! They are very corrupt/evil, and [as a result of their corrupt/evil behavior], [it is as though] the foundation of the world is being shaken!

Thei knewen not, nether vndirstoden, thei goen in derknessis; alle the foundementis of erthe schulen be moued.

6 I [the all-powerful God, previously] said to them, “You think you are gods! [It is as though] you are all my sons,

I seide, Ye ben goddis; and alle ye ben the sones of hiy God.

7 but you will die like people do; your lives will end, like the lives of all rulers end.”

But ye schulen die as men; and ye schulen falle doun as oon of the princis.

8 God, arise and judge [everyone on] [MTY] the earth, because all the people-groups belong to you!

Ryse, thou God, deme thou the erthe; for thou schalt haue eritage in alle folkis.