Psalm 83:11-18

11 Mache sie, ihre Edlen, wie Oreb und wie Seeb, und wie Sebach und wie Zalmunna alle ihre Herrscher!

12 Weil sie gesagt haben: Lasset uns in Besitz nehmen die Wohnungen Gottes!

13 Mein Gott, mache sie gleich einem Staubwirbel, gleich Stoppeln vor dem Winde!

14 Wie Feuer den Wald verbrennt, und wie eine Flamme die Berge entzündet,

15 also verfolge sie mit deinem Wetter, und mit deinem Sturmwinde schrecke sie hinweg!

16 Fülle ihr Angesicht mit Schande, damit sie deinen Namen, Jehova, suchen!

17 Laß sie beschämt und hinweggeschreckt werden für immer, und mit Scham bedeckt werden und umkommen,

18 und erkennen, daß du allein, dessen Name Jehova ist, der Höchste bist über die ganze Erde!

Psalm 83:11-18 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 83

\\<>\\. This is the last of the psalms that bear the name of Asaph, and some think it was written by him on occasion of David's smiting the Philistines, Moabites, Syrians, Edomites, and others, 2Sa 8:1-14, but these did not conjunctly, but separately, fight with David, and were overcome by him; whereas those this psalm makes mention of were in a confederacy together; and besides, the Tyrians in David's time were in friendship with him; but are here mentioned as joining with others against Israel, Ps 83:7, others are of opinion that this was prophetic delivered out with respect to future times, either to the conspiracy of the enemies of the Jews against them in the times of the Maccabees, ``Now when the nations round about heard that the altar was built and the sanctuary renewed as before, it displeased them very much. &c.'' (1 Maccabees 5:1) or rather to the confederacy of the Moabites, Ammonites, and others, in the times of Jehoshaphat, 2Ch 20:1, so Kimchi, Arama, and the generality of interpreters: perhaps reference is had to the enemies of God's people, from age to age, both in the Old and in the New Testament; R. Obadiah understands it of the war of Gog and Magog.