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Verse Psalms 83:16. _THAT THEY MAY SEEK THY NAME_] Let them be
confounded in all their attempts on Israel; and see, so manifestly,
that thou hast done it, that they may invoke thy name, and be
convert...
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FILL THEIR FACES WITH SHAME - As those who are disappointed and foiled
in their plans - such disappointment and confusion commonly
manifesting itself in the face. The prayer here is, that their enemie...
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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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THEIR: i.e. the enemies.
THEY: i.e. Israel, or Thy People.
LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....
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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....
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_Fill their faces_with _shame_ Or, disgrace. Let them be disgraced by
defeat and disappointed in their project. But this is only as the
means to the higher end, that they may seek Jehovah's name,
reco...
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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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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...
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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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THY NAME, O LORD. — Rather, _thy name_ (_which is_)_ Jehovah._ The
nations were to seek Him not only as God, but as Jehovah God of
Israel. This is proved by Psalms 83:18. No doubt the thought uppermos...
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_[Psalms 83:17]_ מַלֵּ֣א פְנֵיהֶ֣ם קָלֹ֑ון
וִֽ יבַקְשׁ֖וּ...
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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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Fill their faces with shame; that they may (m) seek thy name, O LORD.
(m) That is, be compelled by your plagues to confess your power....
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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,...
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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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FILL THEIR FACES WITH SHAME,.... For their sins, or rather through
disappointment, not being able to put their desperate and deep laid
schemes into execution: or "with lightness" o; instead of a weigh...
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Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
Ver. 16. _Fill their faces with shame_] By confounding their
confidences, and blasting their designs. They promised themselves a
triu...
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Fill their faces with shame, disgrace being heaped upon them by their
overthrow, THAT THEY MAY SEEK THY NAME, O LORD, acknowledging the
exclusive divinity of Jehovah, whether willingly or under compul...
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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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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...
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That being disappointed of their hopes, and discerning the impotency
of their idols, they may own and worship thee as the only true God....
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Psalms 83:16 Fill H4390 (H8761) faces H6440 shame H7036 seek H1245
(H8762) name H8034 LORD H3068...
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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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_Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek Thy name, O Lord._
SHAME LEADING TO SALVATION
I. Ungodly men have good cause to be ashamed--
1. Because of the wrong they are doing to their Maker....
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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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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...
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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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Psalms 34:5; Psalms 6:10; Psalms 9:19; Psalms 9:20...
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May seek — May own and worship thee as the only true God....