Psalm 82:4-6

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⁴Help those who are poor and helpless.
Save them from those who are evil.

⁵“They^[a] don’t know what is happening.
    They don’t understand!
They don’t know what they are doing.
    Their world is falling down around them!”
⁶I, God Most High, say,
    “You are gods,^[b] my own sons.

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Footnotes

Psalm 82:5 They This might mean that the poor don’t understand what is happening. Or it might mean that the “gods” or leaders don’t understand that they are ruining the world by not being fair and by not doing what is right.
Psalm 82:6 gods Or “judges.”