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82:8 Prayer that the True God Would Judge the Earth. The psalm closes with prayer that God will judge the earth. Since "judging" is the activity of rulers in this psalm (vv. 2-3), and since when God judges he rebukes the unjust rulers (v. 1), this prayer is for God to rebuke the present unjust rulers and raise up good ones. you shall inherit all the nations. The grounds of the request is that all nations belong to God already; perhaps this also alludes to 2:8, where the messianic king will have the nations as his heritage (or inheritance). The OT looks forward to a Messiah who will bring all nations under his sway, shedding God's light into their hearts and yielding a world dominated by true justice (cf. Isa. 2:1-5; 11:1-10; 42:4).