Psalms — Chapter 82
A psalm of Asaph.God stands in the divine assembly,pronouncing judgment among the divine beings.
How long will you judge perversely,showing favor to the wicked? Selah.
Judge the wretched and the orphan,vindicate the lowly and the poor,
rescue the wretched and the needy;save them from the hand of the wicked.
They neither know nor understand,they go about in darkness;all the foundations of the earth totter.
I had taken you for divine beings,attendantsaattendants Lit. “sons.” of the Most High, all of you;
but you shall die as mortals do,fall like any prince.
Arise, O God, judge the earth,for all the nations are Your possession.
✦ Connected Across Traditions
The Path to Wisdom
Dhammapada 20:282
“Wisdom springs from meditation; without meditation wisdom wanes.”
Analects 2:11
“If you study the past and use it to understand the present, you are worthy of being a teacher.”
Tao Te Ching 33
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”
Quran 39:9
“Are those who know equal to those who do not know?”
Good vs Evil / Light vs Darkness
Yasna 30:3
“Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action.”
John 1:5
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
Dhammapada 1:1-2
“Mind is the forerunner of all actions. If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows like a shadow.”
Bhagavad Gita 16:21
“There are three gates to self-destructive hell: lust, anger, and greed. Therefore, one must learn to give these up.”