Psalm 83:6-16

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

7 der Gebaliter, Ammoniter und Amalekiter, die Philister samt denen zu Tyrus;

8 Assur hat sich auch zu ihnen geschlagen; sie helfen den Kindern Lot. (Sela.)

9 Tue ihnen, wie den Midianitern, wie Sisera, wie Jabin am Bach Kison,

10 die vertilgt wurden bei Endor und wurden zu Kot auf der Erde.

11 Mache ihre Fürsten wie Oreb und Seeb, alle ihre Obersten wie Sebah und Zalmuna,

12 die da sagen: Wir wollen Häuser Gottes einnehmen.

13 Gott, mache sie wie einen Wirbel, wie Stoppeln vor dem Winde.

14 Wie ein Feuer den Wald verbrennt und wie eine Flamme die Berge anzündet:

15 also verfolge sie mit deinem Wetter und erschrecke sie mit deinem Ungewitter.

16 Mache ihr Angesicht voll Schande, daß sie nach deinem Namen fragen müssen, o HERR.

Psalm 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.