PSALM 82 – Part I (page 316) A psalm of Asaph God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: 2 “How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah 3 Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. 4 Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” #SUMMERINPSALMS

“Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.” – Psalm 89:14 #SUMMERINPSALMS

vs. 1 - God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment. #SUMMERINPSALMS

“You shall not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan, nor take a widow’s garment in pledge. But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and that the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing. When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands” – Deuteronomy 24:17-19 #SUMMERINPSALMS

“And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me’” – Matthew 25:40 #SUMMERINPSALMS

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” – Samuel Johnson #SUMMERINPSALMS

“The one who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor will himself also call out and not be answered.” - Proverbs 21:13 #SUMMERINPSALMS

“The one who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor will himself also call out and not be answered.” - Proverbs 21:13 “Anyone who oppresses the poor insults God.” - Proverbs 14:31 #SUMMERINPSALMS

PSALM 82 3 ” Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. 4 Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” #SUMMERINPSALMS

PSALM 82 3 ” Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. 4 Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” #SUMMERINPSALMS -- WAYNE TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY --

PSALM 82 3 ” Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. 4 Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” #SUMMERINPSALMS -- RIVERWORKS CHRISTIAN CENTER --

PSALM 82 3 ” Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. 4 Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” #SUMMERINPSALMS -- PADS & HOMELESS EFFORTS --

PSALM 82 3 ” Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. 4 Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” #SUMMERINPSALMS -- ONTARIOVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL --

PSALM 82 – Part II (page 316) 5 They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. 6 I said, “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; 7 nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince.” 8 Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations! #SUMMERINPSALMS

“In this highly artful and poetic way, the poem unites heaven and earth showing how what is done in heaven’s highest realms affects earth’s lowliest denizens.” - Brent Strawn #SUMMERINPSALMS

“Learn to do what is good. Seek justice. Correct the oppressor. Defend the rights of the fatherless. Plead the widow’s cause.” – Isaiah 1:17 #SUMMERINPSALMS

“Real, true religion from God the Father’s perspective is about caring for the orphans and widows who suffer needlessly and resisting the evil influence of the world” – James 1:27 #SUMMERINPSALMS

31 The Jews picked up stones again to stone him. 32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” 33 The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.” 34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? #SUMMERINPSALMS

35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came— and Scripture cannot be broken— 36 do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 37 If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; 38 but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” 39 Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands. – John 10:31-39 #SUMMERINPSALMS

“To sin by silence when one should speak makes cowards of men.”- Abraham Lincoln #SUMMERINPSALMS

“God has not called us to a life we don’t have time for” #SUMMERINPSALMS

v. 8 - Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations! #SUMMERINPSALMS