¶The prophete admonisheth all iudges and magistrates of their duetie, saying that God sitteth in the midst of them. He reproueth them for vniust iudgementes, and exhor∣teth them to do iustice, yea vnto the poore, vnto wydowes, and to the fatherlesse: for they must dye and make accompt of their doynges aswell as other, howe great in auc∣thoritie soeuer they be. Therfore considering the great iniquitie commonly of iudges and magistrates, he humbly desireth God him selfe to minister iustice here in earth.
1 GOD standeth in the(a) 1.2 congregation of God: he iudgeth in the midst of God.
* 1.32 Howe long wyll ye geue wrong iudge∣ment: and (b) 1.4 accept the persons of the vngodly? Selah.
3 Iudge ryght vnto the poore and fa∣therlesse: dispatch according to iustice suche as be afflicted and in neccessitie.
4 Deliuer the poore and outcast: saue them from the hande of the vngodly.
5 They knowe nothyng, they vnder∣stande nothing: they walke on styll in darknesse, [wherfore] all the foundations of the earth be “ 1.5 out of course.
6 I haue sayde ye are gods: and ye all are chyldren of the most highest.
7 But ye shall dye lyke as a man [doth:] and princes them selues shall fall away lyke as other [do.]
8 Arise O God, and iudge thou the earth: for thou shalt take all Heathen to thine inheritaunce.