Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Psalms 82:7
The v. contrasts the purely human fate of the unjust judges with the superhuman dignity of their calling.
The v. contrasts the purely human fate of the unjust judges with the superhuman dignity of their calling.
Verse Psalms 82:7. _BUT YE SHALL DIE LIKE MEN_] כאדם _keadam_, "ye shall die like _Adam_," who fell from his high perfection and dignity as ye have done. Your high office cannot secure you an immortal...
BUT YE SHALL DIE LIKE MEN - You are mortal, like other people. This fact you have forgotten. You have been lifted up with pride, as if you were in fact more exalted than other people; as if you were n...
Psalms 82 Concerning Judgment _ 1. The judge with His righteous judgment (Psalms 82:1)_ 2. Arise O God! judge the earth (Psalms 82:6) His own presence in the congregation of God (Israel) means a r...
LXXXII. AGAINST INIQUITOUS RULERS. Jewish rulers are meant, as is plain from Psalms 82:3 f. PSALMS 82:6 F. The use of the word God in Psalms 82:6 f. is ironical. The great men bear themselves as if D...
MEN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14. PRINCES. Compare Numbers 16:2; Numbers 16:35....
The character of these judges described and their sentence pronounced....
_But_ R.V., Nevertheless. Though they bear this high title, it will not exempt them from punishment. They shall die like common men, and fall like any other princes whose ruin is recorded in history ...
FALL LIKE ONE THE PRINCES— _Fall like one of the poor; whom ye treat with so much contempt, as to refuse them justice._ See Psalms 82:3. Bishop Hare: who has thus nobly restored the text here, reading...
PSALMS 82 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Judgment of Unjust Judges. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 82:1, Introductory Vision. Stanza II., Psalms 82:2-7, Reprimand of the Judges by the Judge of Judges. Stanza II...
But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. BUT YE SHALL DIE LIKE MEN - like any ordinary man; Hebrew, 'aadaam (H120) (Psalms 9:20). The gods or great men had virtually forgotten t...
82:7 men, (e-6) _ Adam_ ....
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ GOD AND THE GODS PSALMS 82 JESUS SAID, "I SAW *SATAN FALL FROM *HEAVEN LIKE A LIGHT THROUGH THE SKY". (LUKE 10: 18)
אָ֭כֵן כְּ אָדָ֣ם תְּמוּת֑וּן וּ כְ אַחַ֖ד
Psalms 82:1 IN Psalms 50:1 God is represented as gathering His people together to be judged; in this psalm He has gathered them together for His judgment on judges. The former psalm begins at an earli...
THE JUST JUDGE OF ALL Psalms 82:1 Those described here as _gods_ are evidently the judges and magistrates of Israel. See John 10:34. They were intended to be the mouthpiece and representatives of God...
This psalm is a cry for justice, born of a sense of maladministration of those in authority. It first announces the fact that God is the supreme Judge. This is a recognition of the perfect equity of t...
(e) But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. (e) No title of honour will excuse you, but you will be subject to God's judgments, and tender account as well as other men....
_Agarenes descended from Agar, though they took the name of Saracens, as if they had sprung from Sara, (Worthington) or they dwelt at Agra, otherwise called Petra, in Arabia; or on the east of Galaad,...
The sense in which magistrates and princes are said to be gods, our blessed Lord himself hath explained, when clearly proving, that it does not imply the smallest idea of anything exalted about them,...
Psalms 82. We find God assuming the government into His own hands. He had set up authority in the earth and especially in Israel. Directed by His word in judgment and armed with His authority, the jud...
BUT YE SHALL DIE LIKE MEN,.... As men in common do, to whom it is appointed to die, Hebrews 9:27 or as common men, as men in the lowest class of life: the wise man dies as the fool, the king as the pe...
But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. Ver. 7. _But ye shall die like men_] Yea, if wicked, like beasts, but only for their pillow and bolster. _Super cubilia forsan in honore m...
_I have said, Ye are gods_ I have given you my name and power to rule your people in my stead; _and all of you_ Not only the rulers of Israel, but of all other nations; (for _the powers that be are or...
GOD AS THE JUDGE OF GOVERNMENTS. A psalm of Asaph, to set forth the majesty of the great Judge of the earth....
But, in spite of the prerogative which they hold by virtue of the grace of God, YE SHALL DIE LIKE MEN, that is, like ordinary people, such as held no distinguishing positions during their lifetime, AN...
6-8 It is hard for men to have honour put upon them, and not to be proud of it. But all the rulers of the earth shall die, and all their honour shall be laid in the dust. God governs the world. There...
BUT YE SHALL DIE: but let not this make you insolent and secure; for though you are gods by name and office, yet still you are mortal men, you must die and give up your account to me your superior Lor...
Psalms 82:7 But H403 die H4191 (H8799) men H120 fall H5307 (H8799) one H259 princes H8269 But -...
CONTENTS: Instructions for the judges of the earth. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: God judges among the mighty of earth. They have their power from Him and are accountable to Him. Magistrates s...
Title. _A psalm of Asaph._ There is no authority for referring this psalm to the time of Jehoshaphat, 2 Chronicles 19:6, which is to contradict the title. David no doubt reformed the courts of justice...
_I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the Most High._ HUMAN RULERS I. Their official greatness. 1. They are here called gods. “Ye are gods.” In what sense are they gods? (1) No...
_God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; He judgeth among the gods._ THE SUPREMACY OF GOD I. As rebuking unjust rulers. “How long will ye judge unjustly?” Here is a common crime. Human ruler...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 82:1. Some call this a community lament since it addresses God directly with a request on behalf of the whole people (v. Psalms 82:8). Others
INTRODUCTION _Superscription.—“A_ Psalm of Asaph.” (See Introduction to Psalms 74.) _Occasion_.—We are unable to determine upon what occasion the Psalm was written. It is clear, however, that it is ad...
EXPOSITION Two different explanations have been given of the general bearing and intention of this psalm—one, recently advocated by Professor Cheyne, that it is a denunciation of the angels whom God h...
Psa 82:1-8 is a psalm that is directed to judges. And it is a very solemn psalm that God directs to judges, and basically God declares that He is not happy or satisfied with men's judgment. God stand...
Ezekiel 31:14; Job 21:32; Psalms 49:12; Psalms 83:11...
Like men — Or, like ordinary men....