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Psalms 83:1
Keep not Thou silence, content with resting, with being an idle spectator, O God; hold not Thy peace and be not still, O God, that is, inactive while such great dangers were threatening.
Keep not Thou silence, content with resting, with being an idle spectator, O God; hold not Thy peace and be not still, O God, that is, inactive while such great dangers were threatening.
PSALM LXXXIII _The psalmist calls upon God for immediate help against a_ _multitude of confederate enemies who had risen up against_ _Judah_, 1-5. _He mentions them by name_, 6-8; _shows how they...
KEEP NOT THOU SILENCE, O GOD - See the notes at Psalms 28:1. The prayer here is that in the existing emergency God would not seem to be indifferent to the needs and dangers of his people, and to the p...
Psalms 83 The Final Enemies Overthrown _ 1. The enemies in confederacy (Psalms 83:1)_ 2. Their complete defeat and fate (Psalms 83:9) Elsewhere in prophecy we read of the confederacies of nations,...
LXXXIII. The date can be fixed with a near approach to certainty. The clue is furnished by 1 Maccabees 5. The victories of Judas Maccabæ us and the cleansing of the Temple in 165 B.C. (p. 607) were fo...
TITLE.. SONG. Hebrew. _shir_. App-65. Psalm. Hebrew. _mizmor._ App-65. OF ASAPH. The last of the twelve Asaph Psalms. Probably Jahaziel _'_ s: compare 2 Chronicles 20:14; 2 Chronicles 20:19, the Psalm...
_Keep not_&c. O God (_Elôhîm_), keep not still, lit. _let there be no rest to thee. hold not thy peace_ Or, be not silent. Cp. Psalms 28:1; Psalms 35:22; Psalms 39:12. _be not still_ Neither take thou...
An urgent prayer that God will come to the rescue of His people, whom their enemies are conspiring to annihilate....
_A complaint to God of the enemies' conspiracies. A prayer against them that oppress the church._ A Song _or_ Psalm of Asaph. _TITLE._ ףּלאס מזמור שׁיר _SHIIR MIZMOR LESAPH_.— It has been commonly tho...
PSALMS 83 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE An Appeal to God for Deliverance from an Impending Invasion. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 83:1-4, Israel's Enemies described as the Enemies of Godtheir Destructive Designs...
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. Psalms 83:1.-Prayer for God's open interposition (); since God's foes tumultuously assail Israel in a vast confederacy of...
This Ps. describes a confederacy of God's enemies, the object of which is to attack and exterminate Israel (Psalms 83:2). A list of the allies is given (Psalms 83:6). The Psalmist appeals to God to in...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ ENEMIES ALL ROUND US! PSALMS 83 Jesus said, "I am sending you like sheep into a group of wolves. So, be as clever as snakes but, like the dove, do not hurt anybod...
KEEP NOT THOU SILENCE, O GOD. — Literally, _God, not silence to thee._ (Comp. Isaiah 62:7; and see Note, Psalms 28:1.)...
שִׁ֖יר מִזְמֹ֣ור לְ אָסָֽף׃ _[Psalms 83:2]_ אֱלֹהִ֥ים...
Psalms 83:1 THIS psalm is a cry for help against a world in arms. The failure of all attempts to point to a period when all the allies here represented as confederate against Israel were or could have...
“THE MOST HIGH OVER ALL THE EARTH” Psalms 83:1 This psalm was composed on the occasion described in 2 Chronicles 20:1, where we learn that at a great crisis the Spirit of God came on Jahaziel, one of...
The psalmist has a vision of the confederacy of all the enemies of the people of God. This he describes as to its process, it constitution, and its purpose. They have taken counsel together with the a...
"A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph." Keep (a) not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. (a) This psalm seems to have been composed as a form of prayer against the dangers that th...
Core. See Psalm viii., xli., and lxxx. (Haydock) --- The Corites were musicians, as well as porters in the temple, 1 Paralipomenon xxvi. They here represent the faithful upon earth, (St. Augustine; Wo...
CONTENTS The Psalmist is here again under affliction, and is looking to the mercy-seat for deliverance. He makes complaint against his enemies, and those of the church. A Song 1-8 Whether we behold...
1_O God! hold not thy peace. _It is very generally agreed among commentators, that this psalm was composed during the reign of king Jehoshaphat; and in this opinion I readily concur. That godly king,...
Psalms 83 requires only to call attention to its subject. It is the last confederacy of the nations surrounding Canaan, with Assur helping them. At the close of the psalm, though the cry be to God as...
KEEP NOT THOU SILENCE, O GOD,.... Which he is thought and said to do, when he does not answer the prayers of his people, nor plead their cause, nor rebuke their enemies; when he does not speak a good...
Psalms 83:1 «A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph. » Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. Ver. 1. _Keep not thou silence, O God_] _Ter idem dicit ad vehementiam._ He saith...
_Keep not thou silence, O God_ Plead for us, not by words, but by thy actions; _hold not thy peace_ Hebrew, אל תחרשׁ, _al techeresh: be not deaf_, to our prayers, and to the blasphemies of thine and o...
1-8 Sometimes God seems not to be concerned at the unjust treatment of his people. But then we may call upon him, as the psalmist here. All wicked people are God's enemies, especially wicked persecut...
PSALM 83 THE ARGUMENT The occasion of the Psalm is manifest from the body of it, and it seems to have been a dangerous attempt and conspiracy. of divers neighbouring nations against Israel or Judah. P...
Psalms 83:1 Song H7892 Psalm H4210 Asaph H623 silent H1824 God H430 peace H2790 (H8799) still H8252 ...
This is a Psalm that is not often read, and very seldom expounded, I should think. According to the title, it is «A Song or Psalm of Asaph.» Asaph is one of a little group of poets who flourished side...
CONTENTS: An appeal to God's jealousy for His cause and prayer for defeat of enemies. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph, Sisera, Zeeb, Jabin, Oreb. CONCLUSION: We cannot but be zealous against those who federat...
This psalm bears the style and character of Asaph's composition. It has been referred to the time of Hezekiah, when Sennacherib came up against Judea; but he came equally against Egypt, and all the ni...
_Keep not Thou silence, O God: hold not Thy peace, and be not still, O God._ AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN I. A lamentable social scene (Psalms 83:2). The scene is that of men in tumultuous hostility both to...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 83:1. This is a community lament, responding to a situation in which God’s people are threatened by Gentile enemies (vv. Psalms 83:6) who aim
INTRODUCTION This is the last of the Psalms of Asaph. If the Psalm refers to the times of Jehoshaphat, the author was probably “Jahaziel, a Levite of the sons of Asaph,” upon whom “came the Spirit of...
EXPOSITION THE psalmist makes a passionate appeal to God on behalf of Israel at a time of great danger. A confederacy has been formed among the surrounding nations, having for its object the destructi...
Psa 83:1-18 is a psalm where he is speaking out of the calamities that the enemies have brought upon them and asking for God's deliverance as He had in their past history. Asking God to work, "O God,...
Isaiah 42:14; Psalms 109:1; Psalms 109:2; Psalms 28:1; Psalms 35:22;...