The New American Bible, Revised
Edition (NABRE), is a Bible translation made available
online by the United
States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Their
footnotes to Ps. 82 echo Divine Council teaching which we get from Michael
Heiser and others, as you see here, where I quote from the NABRE footnotes:
Footnotes
Psalm
82 As in Ps 58, the pagan gods
are seen as subordinate divine beings to whom Israel’s God had delegated
oversight of the foreign countries in the beginning (Dt 32:8–9). Now God
arises in the heavenly assembly (Ps 82:1) to rebuke the
unjust “gods” (Ps 82:2–4), who are
stripped of divine status and reduced in rank to mortals (Ps 82:5–7). They are
accused of misruling the earth by not upholding the poor. A short prayer for
universal justice concludes the Psalm (Ps 82:8).
a.
82:5 The
gods are blind and unable to declare what is right. Their misrule shakes
earth’s foundations (cf. Ps 11:3; 75:4), which God made
firm in creation (Ps 96:10).
b.
82:6 I
declare: “Gods though you be”: in Jn 10:34 Jesus
uses the verse to prove that those to whom the word of God is addressed can fittingly
be called “gods.”
c. 82:8 Judge the earth: according to Dt 32:8–9, Israel’s God had originally assigned jurisdiction over the foreign nations to the subordinate deities, keeping Israel as a personal possession. Now God will directly take over the rulership of the whole world.
Ps. 82 footnotes, New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE), © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC.
