Psalm 82

Psalm 82
Psalm 82
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Book	Book of Psalms
Hebrew Bible part	Ketuvim
Order in the Hebrew part	1
Category	Sifrei Emet
Christian Bible part	Old Testament
Order in the Christian part	19

Psalm 82 is the 82nd psalm in the biblical Book of Psalms, subtitled "A Psalm of Asaph". In the slightly different numbering system of the Greek Septuagint version of the Bible and its Latin translation, the Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 81.

Uses[]

Judaism[]

Psalm 82 is the psalm of the day in the Shir Shel Yom on Tuesday.^[1]
It is recited on Hoshana Rabbah.^[2]
Verse 1 is part of Mishnah Talmud 7:4 ^[3] and is found in Pirkei Avot Chapter 3, no. 7.^[4]

Christianity[]

Jesus quotes verse 6 in John 10:34:^[5] I said, "You are gods". Jesus uses this text to assert that he is not blaspheming when he calls himself the Son of God. The second part of verse 6: All of you are sons of the Most High does not appear in the text quoted by John. Quoting Bishop Westcott, the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges says of this text:

"The fact that it was possible for men so to represent God as to be called gods or divine was a foreshadowing of the Incarnation. 'There lay already in the Law the germ of the truth which Christ announced, the union of God and man'.”^[6]

Jesus alludes directly to Psalm 82, where the elohim (gods) receive the word of God in the form of judgment and condemnation. Against his accusers Jesus was appealing to the precedent already established in the Torah, which referred to God's holy ones, or his divine council, as "gods" (elohim).^[7]

Contextual interpretation[]

This passage was produced in the context of the ancient Hebrews, and their Ancient Near Eastern environment.^[8]
The final verse of the Psalm, verse 8, has God in the future tense "inheriting the nations", where previously "the Son" inherited the nations in Psalm 2, and the believing community inherits the nations in Psalms 25 and 37. God already possesses the nations but in some sense inherits them as well.

References[]

^ The Complete Artscroll Siddur page 164
^ The Artscroll Tehillim page 329
^ The Complete Artscroll Siddur page 479
^ The Complete Artscroll Siddur page 559
^ Kirkpatrick, A. F. (1901). The Book of Psalms: with Introduction and Notes. The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges. Vol. Book IV and V: Psalms XC-CL. Cambridge: At the University Press. p. 839. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
^ Quoted in Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on Psalm 82, accessed 23 May 2016
^ Heiser 2015, pp. 163–171.
^ Heiser 2015, pp. 23–38.

Bibliography[]

Heiser, Michael (2015). The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible (Kindle edition). Billingham, WA 98225, USA: Lexham Press. ISBN 978-1-57-799556-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)

External links[]

Psalm 82 in Hebrew and English - Mechon-mamre
Psalm 82 King James Bible - Wikisource

[1] The Complete Artscroll Siddur page 164

[2] The Artscroll Tehillim page 329

[3] The Complete Artscroll Siddur page 479

[4] The Complete Artscroll Siddur page 559

[5] Kirkpatrick, A. F. (1901). The Book of Psalms: with Introduction and Notes. The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges. Vol. Book IV and V: Psalms XC-CL. Cambridge: At the University Press. p. 839. Retrieved February 28, 2019.

[6] Quoted in Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on Psalm 82, accessed 23 May 2016

[FOOTNOTEHeiser2015163–171-7] Heiser 2015, pp. 163–171.

[FOOTNOTEHeiser201523–38-8] Heiser 2015, pp. 23–38.

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