Psalms 81:2
How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the wicked?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Usquequo judicatis iniquitatem, et facies peccatorum sumitis ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἕως πότε κρίνετε ἀδικίαν, καὶ πρόσωπα ἁμαρτωλῶν λαμβάνετε; διάψαλμα.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 82:2
- עַד מָתַ֥י תִּשְׁפְּטוּ עָ֑וֶל וּפְנֵ֥י רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים תִּשְׂאוּ סֶֽלָה
Haydock's commentary
Wicked. Contrary to the law, Deuteronomy i. 17., and Leviticus xix. 15.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXXII
3. “How long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of the ungodly” ( ver. 2 ); as in another place, “How long are ye heavy in heart?” Until He shall come who is the light of the heart? I have given a law, ye have resisted stubbornly: I sent Prophets, ye treated them unjustly, or slew them, or connived at those who did so. But if they are not worthy to be even spoken to, who slew the servants of God that were sent to them, ye who were silent when these things were doing, that is, ye who would imitate as if they were innocent those who then were silent, “how long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of the ungodly?” If the Heir comes even now, is He to be slain? Was He not willing for your sake to become as it were a child under guardians? Did not He for your sake hunger and thirst like one in need? Did He not cry to you, “Learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly o …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CXXXVI
2. Then follows, “Give thanks to the God of gods, for His mercy endureth for ever” ( ver. 2 ). “Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for His mercy endureth for ever” ( ver. 3 ). We may well enquire, Who are these gods and lords, of whom He who is the true God is God and Lord? And we find written in another Psalm, that even men are called gods. The Lord even takes note of this testimony in the Gospel, saying, “Is it not written in your Law, I have said, Ye are gods?”…It is not therefore because they are all good, but because “the word of God came to them,” that they were called gods. For were it because they are all good, He would not thus distinguish between them. …