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Psalm 82:7

Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers.”

5They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
6I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.
7Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers.”
8Arise, God, judge the earth, for you inherit all of the nations.
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Notice

“Nevertheless” cuts across the exalted titles of the previous line, confronting the hope that rank or power might place anyone beyond God’s judgment.

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What changes in your reading when “You are gods” is followed by “you shall die like men”?

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Where do you see rulers treated as though their power could never end?

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Where else Scripture says this

5 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 49:12But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.Both passages name death as the limit that earthly advantages cannot overcome: riches in Psalm 49, exalted standing in Psalm 82.
Ezekiel 31:14to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, and don’t set their top among the thick boughs. Their mighty ones don’t …Both passages bring the exalted down to the same death that comes to human beings.
Psalm 83:11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,Both passages concern the fate of rulers, with Psalm 83 naming nobles and princes in its prayer.
Job 21:32Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb.Both passages speak of death; Job adds the detail of people keeping watch over the tomb.
Ezekiel 28:9Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’? But you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.Both passages pair divine titles with the prospect of death, which those titles cannot prevent.
Where this verse fits

Leadership weight. injustice and anger. death and what comes after.

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Something small to carry out of this verse

Read Psalm 82:6-8 aloud, pausing at “Nevertheless”

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Encouragement

Readers differ over who the “gods” are, but the sentence is clear: their exalted title cannot spare them from death. God pronounces their end.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).