1 A Canticle Psalm of Asaph. 2 O God, who will ever be like you? Do not be silent, and do not be unmoved, O God. 3 For behold, your enemies have sounded off, and those who hate you have carried out a head. 4 They have acted with malice in counsel over your people, and they have plotted against your holy ones. 5 They have said, “Come, let us scatter them from the nations and not allow the name of Israel to be remembered any longer.” 6 For they plotted unanimously. Joined together against you, they ordained a covenant: 7 the tabernacle of Edomites and Ishmaelites, and Moab and the Hagarites, 8 and Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, the foreigners among the inhabitants of Tyre. 9 For even Assur comes with them. They have become the helpers of the sons of Lot. 10 Do to them as you did to Midian and Sisera, just as to Jabin at the torrent of Kishon. 11 They perished at Endor, and they became like the dung of the earth. 12 Set their leaders to be like Oreb and Zeeb, and Zebah and Zalmunna: all their leaders 13 who said, “Let us possess the Sanctuary of God for an inheritance.” 14 My God, set them like a wheel, and like stubble before the face of the wind. 15 Set them like a fire burning up the forest, and like a flame burning up the mountains. 16 So will you pursue them in your tempest, and disturb them in your wrath. 17 Fill their faces with shame, and they will seek your name, O Lord. 18 Let them be ashamed and troubled, from age to age, and let them be confounded and perish. 19 And let them know that the Lord is your name. You alone are the Most High in all the earth.
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Psalm 82 (83) Catholic Public Domain Version
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- Esther and Daniel are the Vulgate books (Esther 1–16 with the Greek additions as chapters 10:4–16; Daniel 1–14 with the Song of the Three, Susanna and Bel). Baruch 6 is the Letter of Jeremiah.
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Cross references (19)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info. References use English (Hebrew-based) verse numbers; links open the passage in CPDV.
- 1 Psalm 28:1; Psalm 35:22; Psalm 50:3; Psalm 109:1–2; Isaiah 42:14
- 2 Psalm 28:1; Psalm 35:22; Psalm 50:3; Psalm 109:1–2; Isaiah 42:14
- 3 Psalm 81:15; Matthew 27:24; Isaiah 17:12; Isaiah 37:23; Jeremiah 1:19
- 4 Psalm 64:2; Psalm 27:5; Psalm 31:20; Isaiah 7:6–7; Luke 20:20–23
- 5 Jeremiah 48:2; Jeremiah 11:19; Esther 3:6–9; Psalm 74:8; Acts 9:1–2
- 6 Psalm 2:2; Revelation 17:13; Isaiah 8:9–10; Isaiah 7:5–7; Revelation 19:19
- 7 1 Chronicles 5:10; 2 Chronicles 20:1; 2 Chronicles 20:10–11; Psalm 137:7; 1 Chronicles 5:19–20
- 8 Joshua 13:5; Ezekiel 27:3; Ezekiel 27:9; Amos 1:9; 1 Samuel 4:1
- 9 Deuteronomy 2:9; Genesis 10:11; Genesis 25:3; Genesis 19:37–38; Isaiah 33:2
- 10 Isaiah 9:4; Judges 4:15–24; Numbers 31:7–8; Judges 5:21; Judges 4:7
- 11 Zephaniah 1:17; Joshua 17:11; 1 Samuel 28:7; Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 8:2
- 12 Judges 7:25; Judges 8:12–21
- 13 2 Chronicles 20:11; Psalm 83:4; Psalm 74:7–8
- 14 Job 21:18; Psalm 35:5; Isaiah 40:24; Psalm 74:11–12; Isaiah 17:12–14
- 15 Deuteronomy 32:22; Malachi 4:1; Isaiah 9:18; Nahum 1:6; Isaiah 30:33
- 16 Job 9:17; Psalm 50:3; Isaiah 28:17; Psalm 58:9; Job 27:20–23
- 17 Psalm 9:19–20; Psalm 6:10; Psalm 34:5; Psalm 109:29; Job 10:15
- 18 Psalm 35:4; Psalm 109:29; Psalm 35:26; Psalm 40:14–15
- 19 Exodus 6:3; Ezekiel 38:23; Psalm 59:13; Jeremiah 16:21; Psalm 97:9
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations). Verse numbers below follow the Hebrew/English numbering: 83.
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
This Psalm, like others similarly named, was so entitled either from the name of the man who wrote it, or from the explanation of that same name, so as to refer in meaning to the Synagogue, which Asaph signifies; especially as this is intimated in the first verse. For it begins, "God stood in the synagogue of gods" (ver. 1).
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
And this is averred by the sacred Psalmist when he says, "Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek Thy name, O Lord;" that is, that they who have pleased themselves in seeking their own glory may be pleased and satisfied with Thee in seeking Thy glory.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Sometimes it signifies exhortation: as when the divine apostle says, Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord; yet I give my judgment: sometimes it means counsel, as when the prophet David says, They have taken crafty counsel against Thy people: sometimes it means a decree, as when we read in Daniel, Concerning whom (or, what) went …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)