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Psalm 83 Free Bible Version

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1 A song. A psalm of Asaph. God, please do not stay silent! You can't remain unmoved! God, you must not keep quiet! 2 Can't you hear the roars of your enemies? Can't you see how those who hate you are defiantly lifting up their heads? 3 They invent cunning plans to conspire against your people; they plot against those you treasure. 4 They say, “Come on! Let's destroy them as a nation so the name ‘Israel’ will be completely forgotten.” 5 They all agree in their conspiracy; they've made a treaty together to attack you— 6 the people of Edom, the Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagirites; 7 the people of Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, and the inhabitants of Tyre. 8 Assyria too has joined them, allied with the descendants of Lot. Selah. 9 Do to them what you did to Midian, what you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River. 10 They were destroyed at Endor and became like manure to fertilize the ground. 11 Make their leaders like Oreb and Zeeb; all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna, 12 for they said, “Let's take the pastures of God for ourselves!” 13 My God, make them like whirling tumbleweeds, chaff blown away by the wind. 14 Just like fire that burns the forest, a flame that sets fire to the mountains, 15 in the same way chase them down with your storm, terrify them with your whirlwind. 16 Shame them in defeat so that they come to you, Lord! 17 Make them ashamed, terrify them forever so that they die in disgrace. 18 Let them understand that you alone, called the Lord, are the Most High who rules over all the earth.

Cross references (18)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Psalm 28:1; Psalm 35:22; Psalm 50:3; Psalm 109:1–2; Isaiah 42:14
  2. 2 Psalm 81:15; Matthew 27:24; Isaiah 17:12; Isaiah 37:23; Jeremiah 1:19
  3. 3 Psalm 64:2; Psalm 27:5; Psalm 31:20; Isaiah 7:6–7; Luke 20:20–23
  4. 4 Jeremiah 48:2; Jeremiah 11:19; Esther 3:6–9; Psalm 74:8; Acts 9:1–2
  5. 5 Psalm 2:2; Revelation 17:13; Isaiah 8:9–10; Isaiah 7:5–7; Revelation 19:19
  6. 6 1 Chronicles 5:10; 2 Chronicles 20:1; 2 Chronicles 20:10–11; Psalm 137:7; 1 Chronicles 5:19–20
  7. 7 Joshua 13:5; Ezekiel 27:3; Ezekiel 27:9; Amos 1:9; 1 Samuel 4:1
  8. 8 Deuteronomy 2:9; Genesis 10:11; Genesis 25:3; Genesis 19:37–38; Isaiah 33:2
  9. 9 Isaiah 9:4; Judges 4:15–24; Numbers 31:7–8; Judges 5:21; Judges 4:7
  10. 10 Zephaniah 1:17; Joshua 17:11; 1 Samuel 28:7; Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 8:2
  11. 11 Judges 7:25; Judges 8:12–21
  12. 12 2 Chronicles 20:11; Psalm 83:4; Psalm 74:7–8
  13. 13 Job 21:18; Psalm 35:5; Isaiah 40:24; Psalm 74:11–12; Isaiah 17:12–14
  14. 14 Deuteronomy 32:22; Malachi 4:1; Isaiah 9:18; Nahum 1:6; Isaiah 30:33
  15. 15 Job 9:17; Psalm 50:3; Isaiah 28:17; Psalm 58:9; Job 27:20–23
  16. 16 Psalm 9:19–20; Psalm 6:10; Psalm 34:5; Psalm 109:29; Job 10:15
  17. 17 Psalm 35:4; Psalm 109:29; Psalm 35:26; Psalm 40:14–15
  18. 18 Exodus 6:3; Ezekiel 38:23; Psalm 59:13; Jeremiah 16:21; Psalm 97:9

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

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).

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).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm LXXXII)

    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)

  2. Quotes verse 83:16 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XIV, Chapters 12–13)

    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)

  3. Quotes verse 83:3 John of Damascus, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (Book III, Chapters XII–XIV)

    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)