Passage Research
Psalm 82 — Sermon Preparation
An Asaph psalm depicting God presiding over a divine council, rebuking corrupt rulers and calling them to justice before pronouncing their mortality. Below is a research summary for Psalm 82, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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Psalm 82 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שָׁפַט | shâphaṭ | H8199 | 4 | judge, sentence |
| דַּל | dal | H1800 | 2 | dangling, weak |
| רָשָׁע | râshâʻ | H7563 | 2 | wrong, bad |
| מוֹסָד | môwçâd | H4144 | 1 | foundation |
| חֲשֵׁכָה | chăshêkâh | H2825 | 1 | darkness, misery |
| רוּשׁ | rûwsh | H7326 | 1 | be destitute |
| פָּלַט | pâlaṭ | H6403 | 1 | slip, escape |
How preachers through history handled this text
6 public-domain excerpts on Psalm 82, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“This psalm is calculated for the meridian of princes' courts and courts of justice, not in Israel only, but in other nations; yet it was probably penned primarily for the use of the magistrates of Israel, the great Sanhedrim, and their other elders who were in places of power, and perhaps by David's direction. This psalm is designed to make kings wise, and "to instruct the judges of the earth" (as 2 and 10), to tell them their duty as (2 Sam. xxiii. 3), and to tell them of their faults as Ps. lviii. 1. We have here, I. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 3 (Job to Song of Solomon), on Psalm 82:1–30 (Public Domain)
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