Psalms 82:7

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 that they are liable to die like other men (Psalms 49:11). God tells them, your god-like station wherewith God has invested you will not exempt you from the penalty of your abuse of it. AND FALL LIKE ONE OF THE PRINCES - i:e., be cut off by God's judgment by a violent death. [So naapal (H5307), "perish" by God's judgment,...

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 is a righteous God to whom we may go, and on whom we may depend. This also has respect to the kingdom of the Messiah. Considering the state of affairs in the world, we have need to pray that the Lord Jesus would speedily rule over all nations, in truth, righteousness, and peace...

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 immortality. _AND FALL LIKE ONE OF THE PRINCES._] _Justice_ shall pursue you, and _judgment_ shall overtake you; and you shall be executed like public _state criminals_. You shall not, in the course of nature, fall into the grave; but your life shall be brought to an end by a _legal_ _sentence_, or a _particular judgment_ of God....

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 not subject to the law which consigns all people to the grave. An ancient monarch directed his servant to address him each morning in this language: “Remember, sire, that thou art mortal.” No more salutary truth can be impressed on the minds of the rich and the great than that they are, in this respect, like other people - like the poorest, the meanest of the race: that they will die under similar forms of disease; that they will experience the same pain; that all which is fearful in death will be their portion as well as that of the most obscure; and that in the grave, with whatever pomp and splendor they descend to it, or however magnificent the monument which may be reared over the spot wh...

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 has put in charge of the earth (see Daniel 10:13; Daniel 12:1), on account of the violence and injustice which they have connived at and permitted; the other, that it is a denunciation of the human judges in Israel, who are corrupt and oppressors of the people. The objection to the former view is, first, that the angels are nowhere else taxed with wrong doing, or with anything worse than folly (Job 15:15); and, secondly, that it is inconceivable that God should entrust the government of the world to such imperfect and

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 peasant, high as the low, rich as the poor; death levels and makes all alike: or as Adam, as the first man, so Jarchi, who was lord of the whole universe; but being in honour, abode not, but became like the beasts that perish; sinning he died, and so all his posterity, even those who have the greatest power and authority on earth; see Psalms 49:2 and not only die a corporeal death, but an eternal one, dying in their sins; as Christ threatened the Jewish rulers, Scribes, and Pharisees, if they believed not in him, John 8:21...

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 righteous judgment. Israel is then owned as His congregation (Numbers 27:17). The judges among them were called gods; the Hebrew word for judges in Exodus 21:6 is “elohim”--gods, mighty ones. Our Lord refers to this Psalms 82:6 in...

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 Divine, but have to die like other men. [But see on Psalms 58:1. A. S. P] PRINCES: read, demons. The writer may have had Genesis 6:1 * in mind. Psalms 82:8. inherit: read, rule. But the verse is a later addition. God's rule over the heathen has nothing to do w

MEN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14. PRINCES. Compare Numbers 16:2; Numbers 16:35....

The character of these judges described and their sentence pronounced....