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Psalm 83 Unlocked Literal Bible
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Notes on this text (1)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
1 A song. A psalm of Asaph. God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us and remain unmoved, God.
1 A song. A Psalm by Asaph. God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.
2 Look, your enemies are making a commotion, and those who hate you have raised their heads.
2 For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
3 They conspire against your people and plan together against your protected ones.
3 They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
4 They have said, “Come, and let us destroy them as a nation. Then the name of Israel will no longer be remembered.”
4 “Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
5 They have schemed together with one strategy; against you they have made an alliance.
5 For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.
6 This includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, and the people of Moab and the Hagrites, who plot together with
6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;
7 Gebal, Ammon, Amalek; it also includes Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre.
7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assyria also is allied with them; they are helping the descendants of Lot. Selah
8 Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.
9 Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and to Jabin at the Kishon River.
9 Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
10 They perished at Endor and became like manure for the earth.
10 who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 They said, “Let us take for ourselves the pastures of God.”
12 who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.”
13 My God, make them like the whirling dust, like chaff before the wind,
13 My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.
14 like the fire that burns the forest, and like the flame that sets the mountains on fire.
14 As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
15 Chase them with your strong wind, and terrify them with your windstorm.
15 so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame so that they might seek your name, Yahweh.
16 Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.
17 May they be put to shame and be terrified forever; may they perish in disgrace.
17 Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
18 Then they will know that you alone, Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.
18 that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High 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 Psalm 28:1; Psalm 35:22; Psalm 50:3; Psalm 109:1–2; Isaiah 42:14
- 2 Psalm 81:15; Matthew 27:24; Isaiah 17:12; Isaiah 37:23; Jeremiah 1:19
- 3 Psalm 64:2; Psalm 27:5; Psalm 31:20; Isaiah 7:6–7; Luke 20:20–23
- 4 Jeremiah 48:2; Jeremiah 11:19; Esther 3:6–9; Psalm 74:8; Acts 9:1–2
- 5 Psalm 2:2; Revelation 17:13; Isaiah 8:9–10; Isaiah 7:5–7; Revelation 19:19
- 6 1 Chronicles 5:10; 2 Chronicles 20:1; 2 Chronicles 20:10–11; Psalm 137:7; 1 Chronicles 5:19–20
- 7 Joshua 13:5; Ezekiel 27:3; Ezekiel 27:9; Amos 1:9; 1 Samuel 4:1
- 8 Deuteronomy 2:9; Genesis 10:11; Genesis 25:3; Genesis 19:37–38; Isaiah 33:2
- 9 Isaiah 9:4; Judges 4:15–24; Numbers 31:7–8; Judges 5:21; Judges 4:7
- 10 Zephaniah 1:17; Joshua 17:11; 1 Samuel 28:7; Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 8:2
- 11 Judges 7:25; Judges 8:12–21
- 12 2 Chronicles 20:11; Psalm 83:4; Psalm 74:7–8
- 13 Job 21:18; Psalm 35:5; Isaiah 40:24; Psalm 74:11–12; Isaiah 17:12–14
- 14 Deuteronomy 32:22; Malachi 4:1; Isaiah 9:18; Nahum 1:6; Isaiah 30:33
- 15 Job 9:17; Psalm 50:3; Isaiah 28:17; Psalm 58:9; Job 27:20–23
- 16 Psalm 9:19–20; Psalm 6:10; Psalm 34:5; Psalm 109:29; Job 10:15
- 17 Psalm 35:4; Psalm 109:29; Psalm 35:26; Psalm 40:14–15
- 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).
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)