Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 83:4
Whereby they showed both their implacable rage and malice, and their great assurance of success.
Whereby they showed both their implacable rage and malice, and their great assurance of success.
Verse Psalms 83:4. _LET US CUT THEM OFF_] Let us exterminate the whole race, that there may not be a record of them on the face of the earth. And their scheme was well laid: _eight_ or _ten_ differen...
THEY HAVE SAID, COME, AND LET US CUT THEM OFF ... - Let us utterly destroy them, and root them out from among the nations. Let us combine against them, and overpower them; let us divide their land amo...
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...
FROM BEING. NATION. that they be no more. nation. Compare Jeremiah 48:2.Isaiah 7:8....
An urgent prayer that God will come to the rescue of His people, whom their enemies are conspiring to annihilate....
_from_being _a nation_ Their aim is to obliterate the name of Israel from the map of the world. For the phrase cp. Jeremiah 48:2; and see Psalms 74:8; 1Ma 5:2. _that the name_&c. More accurately, and...
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...
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. THEY HAVE SAID, COME, AND LET US CUT THEM OFF - let us extirpate them. Comp...
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...
For this attack against, not only the independence, but even the continued existence of Israel as a nation, compare Esther 3:6; Esther 3:9; Jeremiah 11:19; Jerem
_[Psalms 83:5]_ אָמְר֗וּ לְ֭כוּ וְ נַכְחִידֵ֣ם מִ...
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...
They have said, Come, and let us (d) cut them off from [being] a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. (d) They were not content to take the Church as prisoner: but sought to...
Turtle. Moderns prefer to render "swallows," without reason. (Bochart) --- Thy altars. They can rest in the ruins of the temple; (Kimchi; Muis) but in that supposition, the altars were destroyed. (Hay...
All confederacies are to the same purport, where God's grace doth not influence the heart. And what a host of them are formed against the Israel of God? And let the Reader remark, who they are that jo...
4_They have said, Come and let us cut them off from being a nation. _The wickedness of these hostile powers is aggravated from the circumstance, that it was their determined purpose utterly to extermi...
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...
THEY HAVE SAID,.... Secretly in their hearts, or openly to one another, and gave it out in the most public manner, as what they had consulted and determined upon; see Psalms 74:8, COME, AND LET US CU...
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. Ver. 4. _They have said, Come, &c._] The wicked have their Come, Proverbs 1...
_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...
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...
They have said, Come and let us cut them off from being a nation, exterminating them from among the nations, THAT THE NAME OF ISRAEL MAY BE NO MORE IN REMEMBRANCE, the annihilation, as planned by them...
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...
Psalms 83:4 said H559 (H8804) Come H3212 (H8798) off H3582 (H8686) nation H1471 name H8034 Israel...
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...
_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...
_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,...
Acts 4:17; Acts 9:1; Acts 9:2; Daniel 7:25; Esther 3:6;...