Chapter 83
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
A. M. 3416. B.C. 588. (Title.) A song. Some refer this Psalm to the confederacy against Jehoshaphat, and others to the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar
of Asaph
or, for Asaph.
Keep
be not
For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
For, lo
2.1,2 74.4,23 2 Kings 19.28 Isaiah 37.29 Jeremiah 1.19 Matthew 27.24 Acts 4.25-27 16.22 17.5 19.28-41 21.30 22.22 23.10
that hate
lifted
75.4,5 93.3 Isaiah 37.23 Daniel 5.20-23
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
They
10.9 56.6 64.2 1 Samuel 13.19 Isaiah 7.6,7 Luke 20.20-23
thy hidden
27.5 31.20 91.1 Colossians 3.3
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
Exodus 1.10 Esther 3.6-9 Proverbs 1.12 Jeremiah 11.19 31.36 Daniel 7.25 Matthew 27.62-66 Acts 4.17 9.1,2
For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
For
2.2 Proverbs 21.30 Isaiah 7.5-7 8.9,10 John 11.47-53 Acts 23.12,13 Revelation 17.13 19.19
consent
Heb. heart. they are.
Joshua 10.3-5 2 Samuel 10.6-8 Isaiah 7.2
The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
The tabernacles
Tents are mentioned because it was the custom of these people, particularly the Ishmaelites, to live a migratory or wandering life; encamping sometimes in one place, and sometimes in another, as they found convenience for themselves and cattle; a custom retained by their descendants to the present day.
Edom
Hagarenes
Genesis 25.12-18 1 Chronicles 5.10,19,20
Hagarites
Verse 7
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Gebal
Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
Assur
Assur is the same in the original as Asshur, or Assyria.
Asshur
holpen
Heb. been an arm to.
the children
Genesis 19.37,38 Deuteronomy 2.9
Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
as unto
Numbers 31.7,8 Judges 7.22-25 Isaiah 9.4 10.26
as to Sisera
of Kison
The variations of Kison and Kishon only exists in the translation; the original being uniformly Kishon.
Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
Endor
as dung
2 Kings 9.37 Jeremiah 8.2 16.4 Zephaniah 1.17
Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
Oreb
Zebah
Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
O my
like
as the
35.5 68.1,2 Exodus 15.7 Job 13.25 21.18 Isaiah 40.24 41.2 Jeremiah 13.24 Matthew 3.12
As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
As the fire
Isaiah 30.33 33.11,12 64.1,2 Ezekiel 20.47,48 Malachi 4.1
the flame
Deuteronomy 32.22 Nahum 1.6,10
So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
11.6 50.3 58.9 Job 9.17 27.20-23 Isaiah 28.17 30.30 Ezekiel 13.11-14 Matthew 7.27 Hebrews 12.18
Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
That men
9.16 59.13 1 Kings 18.37 2 Kings 19.19 Isaiah 5.16 Jeremiah 16.21 Ezekiel 30.19 Ezekiel 38.23
whose
Genesis 22.14 Exodus 6.3 Isaiah 42.8