Psalms 83:1-9

A song. A psalm of Asaph.

1 [a]O God, do not remain silent; do not turn a deaf ear, do not stand aloof, O God.
2 See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads.
3 With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish.
4 “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”
5 With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you—
6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,
7 Byblos, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre.
8 Even Assyria has joined them to reinforce Lot’s descendants.[b]
9 Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,

Cross References 23

  • 1. Psalms 28:1; Psalms 35:22; Isaiah 42:14; Isaiah 57:11; Isaiah 62:1; Isaiah 64:12
  • 2. Psalms 2:1; Isaiah 17:12
  • 3. Judges 8:28; Psalms 81:15
  • 4. S Exodus 1:10; S Psalms 31:13
  • 5. Psalms 17:14
  • 6. S Esther 3:6
  • 7. Jeremiah 33:24
  • 8. Jeremiah 11:19
  • 9. Psalms 2:2
  • 10. Psalms 137:7; Isaiah 34:5; Jeremiah 49:7; Amos 1:11
  • 11. 2 Chronicles 20:1
  • 12. S Genesis 25:16
  • 13. S Joshua 13:5
  • 14. Genesis 19:38
  • 15. S Genesis 14:7; S Exodus 17:14
  • 16. Exodus 15:14
  • 17. Isaiah 23:3; Ezekiel 27:3
  • 18. S Genesis 10:11
  • 19. S Deuteronomy 2:9
  • 20. S Genesis 25:2; Judges 7:1-23
  • 21. S Judges 4:2
  • 22. S Joshua 11:1
  • 23. S Judges 4:23-24

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. In Hebrew texts 83:1-18 is numbered 83:2-19.
  • [b]. The Hebrew has "Selah" (a word of uncertain meaning) here.
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