Psalm 83:1-6

1 Ein Psalmlied Asaphs. Gott, schweige doch nicht also und sei doch nicht so still; Gott, halt doch nicht so inne!

2 Denn siehe, deine Feinde toben, und die dich hassen, richten den Kopf auf.

3 Sie machen listige Anschläge gegen dein Volk und ratschlagen wider deine Verborgenen.

4 "Wohl her!" sprechen sie; "laßt uns sie ausrotten, daß sie kein Volk seien, daß des Namens Israel nicht mehr gedacht werde!"

5 Denn sie haben sich miteinander vereinigt und einen Bund wider dich gemacht,

6 die Hütten der Edomiter und Ismaeliter, der Moabiter und Hagariter,

Psalm 83:1-6 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.