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Verse Psalms 83:3. _CONSULTED AGAINST THY HIDDEN ONES._] צפוניך
_tsephuneycha, Thy hidden things; places; persons_. "The hidden things
in thy treasures." - CHALDEE. "Thy holy ones." - SYRIAC. "Thy sa...
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THEY HAVE TAKEN CRAFTY COUNSEL - The one word translated “have taken
crafty” - ערם _‛__âram_ - means properly to make naked; and
then, to be crafty, cunning, malignant, 1 Samuel 23:22. It is well
ren...
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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,...
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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...
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An urgent prayer that God will come to the rescue of His people, whom
their enemies are conspiring to annihilate....
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_They have taken … and consulted_ They are taking … and consulting
together. Jehovah's _hidden ones_are His people whom He conceals in
His pavilion in the day of trouble (Psalms 27:5; Psalms 31:20), t...
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THY HIDDEN ONES— God's _hidden_ or _treasured ones,_ are those
faithful ones whom he keeps up safe and precious as his treasures. The
Chaldee paraphrase renders it, _Thy hidden treasures;_ and elsewhe...
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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...
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They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted
against thy hidden ones.
THEY HAVE TAKEN CRAFTY COUNSEL AGAINST THY PEOPLE - They combine
craft with violence.
AND CONSULTED AGAIN...
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83:3 ones. (f-13) See Psalms 31:20 ....
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THY HIDDEN ONES] those in God's protection: cp. Psalms 27:5; Psalms
31:20....
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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...
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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...
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THEY HAVE TAKEN CRAFTY COUNSEL. — Literally, _They have made their
plot crafty_; or, as we say, “They have laid a deep plot.”
HIDDEN ONES — _i.e.,_ those under God’s close protection, as in
Psalms 17:...
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_[Psalms 83:4]_ עַֽל ־עַ֭מְּךָ יַעֲרִ֣ימוּ
סֹ֑וד וְ֝...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted
against thy (c) hidden ones.
(c) The elect of God are his secret ones: for he hides them in the
secret of his tabernacle, and preserve...
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_Fainteth. The eager desire of heaven sometimes deprives people of
external satisfaction, and the body partakes of the inward joy.
(Worthington) --- Living. The idols of Babylon have no life.
(Eusebiu...
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Do, Reader, remark the expression; the Lord's hidden ones. As Christ
himself is said to be hid in the Father's shadow, in his hand, and in
his quiver, Isaiah 49:2; so Christ's little ones are said to...
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_‘THY HIDDEN ONES’_
‘They have … consulted against Thy hidden ones.’
Psalms 83:3
I. WE MAY DRAW SWEET AND ALMOST INEXHAUSTIBLE INSTRUCTION FROM THE
NAMES GIVEN TO THE CHILDREN OF GOD IN SCRIPTURE.—...
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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...
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THEY HAVE TAKEN CRAFTY COUNSEL AGAINST THY PEOPLE,.... The people of
Israel, hereafter named, whom God had chosen and avouched to be his
people; these they dealt subtlety with, as the king of Egypt ha...
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They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted
against thy hidden ones.
Ver. 3. _They have taken crafty counsel, &c._] They have negotiated
this league with much subtilty and solici...
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_They have consulted against thy hidden ones_ That is, against thy
people Israel, as it is explained in the foregoing words, and in the
next verse. They are called God's _hidden_, or _secret ones_,
צפ...
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They have taken crafty counsel, laying their plans in secret and with
guile, AGAINST THY PEOPLE, primarily Israel, but as typical of the
spiritual Israel, AND CONSULTED AGAINST THY HIDDEN ONES, the nu...
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A PRAYER FOR HELP AGAINST THE ENEMIES OF THE CHURCH.
A song or psalm of Asaph, the last of his twelve hymns in the psalter,
picturing the craft and rage of the enemies and invoking God's speedy
destr...
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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...
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Psalms 83:3 crafty H6191 (H8686) counsel H5475 people H5971 consulted
H3289 (H8691) ones H6845 (H8803)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_They have taken crafty counsel against Thy people, and consulted
against Thy hidden ones._
THE ENMITY OF THE WICKED AGAINST THE CHURCH
I. The enmity which the wicked bear to the Church of God, and...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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1 Samuel 13:19; Colossians 3:3; Isaiah 7:6; Isaiah 7:7; Luke 20:20;...
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Hidden ones — Thy people of Israel, who are called God's hidden or
secret ones, to intimate the respect which God has to them, as to his
peculiar treasure....