Psalms 83

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,
10 who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 who said, “Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God.”
13 Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like chaff before the wind.
14 As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
15 so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.
16 Cover their faces with shame, LORD, so that they will seek your name.
17 May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace.
18 Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD— that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.

Cross References 38

  • 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
  • 24. S 1 Samuel 28:7
  • 25. S 2 Kings 9:37; Isaiah 5:25; Jeremiah 8:2; Jeremiah 9:22; Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 25:33; Zephaniah 1:17
  • 26. Judges 7:25
  • 27. S Judges 8:5; Judges 8:12,21
  • 28. 2 Chronicles 20:11; Ezekiel 35:10
  • 29. S Job 13:25; Psalms 35:5; Isaiah 17:13
  • 30. Deuteronomy 32:22; Isaiah 9:18
  • 31. S Psalms 50:3
  • 32. S Job 9:17
  • 33. S Psalms 34:5; Psalms 109:29; Psalms 132:18
  • 34. S 2 Kings 19:26
  • 35. S Psalms 35:4
  • 36. S Psalms 68:4
  • 37. Psalms 7:8; Psalms 18:13
  • 38. S Job 34:29; Psalms 59:13

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.

Psalms 83 Commentaries

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