Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 83:13
A wheel — Whereas they promise to themselves a sure possession, let them be like a wheel, which is very unstable, and soon removed.
A wheel — Whereas they promise to themselves a sure possession, let them be like a wheel, which is very unstable, and soon removed.
Verse Psalms 83:13. _O MY GOD, MAKE THEM LIKE A WHEEL_] Alluding to the manner of threshing corn in the east. A _large broad wheel_ was rolled over the grain on a threshing-floor, which was generally...
O MY GOD, MAKE THEM LIKE A WHEEL ... - Or rather, like a rolling thing - something that the wind rolls along. The word גלגל _galgal_ - means properly a wheel, as of a chariot, Ezekiel 10:2, Ezekiel 10...
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...
WHEEL. Hebrew. _galgal,_. rolling thing. Probably the wild artichoke, which throws out branches of equal length, and, when ripe and dry, breaks off at the root, and is carried by the wind, rolling lik...
_make them like a wheel_ Rather, like whirling dust or chaff. Anything whirled away before the wind may be meant. Thomson (_Land and Book_, p. 563) thinks that the globular heads of the wild artichoke...
Renewed prayer for the dispersion and destruction of the enemy expressed by figures from nature. The final end and object of all is that they may acknowledge Jehovah to be supreme....
O MY GOD, MAKE THEM LIKE A WHEEL— This and the following verse seem to allude to the manner of threshing in Judea; which was generally performed on a mountain, where the corn was threshed by means of...
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...
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. -Second part of the second main division. Prayer inspired by God for the extinction of the foe by the fiery storm of God. Verse 13...
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...
A WHEEL] RV 'the whirling dust.'...
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...
A WHEEL. — Heb., _galgal._ (See Note, Psalms 77:18, and comp. Isaiah 17:13, where the Authorised Ver sion has literally _rolling thing,_ the margin “thistle down,” and the LXX., “dust of a wheel.”) Si...
_[Psalms 83:14]_ אֱֽלֹהַ֗י שִׁיתֵ֥מֹו כַ † גַּלְגַּ֑ל...
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...
O my God, make them like a (l) wheel; as the stubble before the wind. (l) Because the reprobate could by no means be amended, he prays that they may utterly be destroyed, be unstable and led by all w...
_Innocence. After the remission of sin. (Worthington)_...
There is not only a great beauty in this appeal and prayer of the church, against all her enemies, but also a great exercise of faith, in divine dependence. We give God credit for all that is to come,...
13._O my God! make them like a whirling ball. _As the ungodly, when they gird and prepare themselves for destroying the Church, are usually inflated with intolerable pride, the inspired bard beseeches...
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...
O MY GOD, MAKE THEM LIKE A WHEEL,.... Which, as the Targum adds, is rolled, and goes on, and rests not in a declivity; let them be as fickle and inconstant as a wheel; being in high, let them be in sl...
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. Ver. 13. _O my God, make them like a wheel_] Heb. Like a rolling thing, such as is thistle down, saith R. Solomon, _Capita carduorum....
_O my God, make them like a wheel_ Whereas they promise themselves a sure possession, let them be like a _wheel_, or a _round ball_, which is very unstable, and soon removed, and which, when once tumb...
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...
O my God, make them like a wheel, like a whirlwind and whatever is carried away by a tornado, AS THE STUBBLE BEFORE THE WIND, disappearing without leaving a trace behind....
9-18 All who oppose the kingdom of Christ may here read their doom. God is the same still that ever he was; the same to his people, and the same against his and their enemies. God would make their en...
Whereas they promise to themselves a sure and firm possession in our land, let them be like A WHEEL, or _a round ball_, which being once tumbled down from the top of a hill, runs down with great force...
Psalms 83:13 God H430 make H7896 (H8798) whirling H1534 chaff H7179 before H6440 wind H7307 O my -...
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
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 83:9 The basic request is that these enemies would utterly fail in their scheme. The ultimate reason for Israel’s existence is to serve God’s purpose of restoring true worship and...
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,...
Exodus 15:7; Isaiah 17:12; Isaiah 40:24; Isaiah 41:2; Jeremiah 13:24