1. God stands among the divine council;

1. He renders judgment among the gods.

2. “How long will you all judge unjustly

2. and accept partiality of the wicked? Selah

3. Defend the poor and fatherless;

3. vindicate the afflicted and needy.

4. Grant escape to the abused and the destitute,

4. pluck them out of the hand of the false.

5. “They have neither knowledge nor understanding;

5. they walk in darkness:

5. all the foundations of the earth are shaken.”

6. I have said, “You are gods,

6. sons of the Most High, all of you,

7. but you all shall die like men,

7. and fall like a man, O princes.”

8. Arise, O God, judge the earth,

8. for You shall inherit all nations.