
Day XVI : Evening Prayer

82 - Deus stetit

1   God stands in the council of princes; *
    he is a Judge among gods.

2   “How long will you give wrong judgment *
    and accept the ungodly?

3   Defend the poor and fatherless; *
    see that those who are in need and necessity have what is right.

4   Deliver the outcast and poor; *
    save them from the hand of the ungodly.”

5   They will not learn nor understand, but walk about in darkness; *
    all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

6   I have said, “You are gods, *
    and you are all the children of the Most High;

7   But you shall die like mortals, *
    and fall like one of the princes.”

8   Arise, O God, and judge the earth, *
    for you shall take all nations for your inheritance.
