Salmos 83:6-16

6 los edomitas y los ismaelitas;
los moabitas y los agarenos;

7 los giblitas, los amonitas y los amalecitas;
y los habitantes de Filistea y de Tiro.

8 Asiria también se unió a ellos
y se alió con los descendientes de Lot.
Interludio

9 Haz con ellos lo mismo que hiciste con los madianitas
y como hiciste también con Sísara y con Jabín en el río Cisón.

10 Fueron destruidos en Endor,
y sus cadáveres en descomposición fertilizaron la tierra.

11 Que sus poderosos nobles mueran como murieron Oreb y Zeb;
que todos sus príncipes mueran como Zeba y Zalmuna,

12 porque dijeron: «¡Vamos a apoderarnos de estos pastizales de Dios
y a usarlos para nuestro beneficio!»

13 ¡Oh mi Dios, espárcelos como a arbustos que ruedan,
como a paja que se lleva el viento!

14 Así como el fuego quema un bosque
y una llama incendia las montañas,

15 persíguelos con tu tormenta feroz,
atérralos con tu tempestad.

16 Desacredítalos por completo
hasta que se sometan a tu nombre, oh Señor
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Salmos 83:6-16 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.