Verse Psalms 83:5. They have consulted together with one consent] With a united heart, לב יחדו leb yachdav, Their heart and soul are in the work.
They are confederate against thee] "They have made a covenant," ברית יכריתו berith yachrithu, "they have cut the covenant sacrifice." They have slain an animal, divided him in twain, and passed between the pieces of the victim; and have thus bound themselves to accomplish their purpose.
FOR THEY HAVE CONSULTED TOGETHER WITH ONE CONSENT - Margin, as in Hebrew, heart. There is no division in their counsels on this subject. They have one desire - one purpose - in regard to the matter. 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...
ARE CONFEDERATE. have solemnized. covenant. against Thee. Not only against Thy People (Psalms 83:3)....
_they are confederate against thee_ Lit., against thee do they make a covenant. Cp. Psalms 83:2....
An enumeration of the confederate peoples. From the southeast come the Edomites, who inhabited the mountainous region between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Akaba, and the Ishmaelites, who roamed over t...
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...
For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: FOR THEY HAVE, CONSULTED TOGETHER WITH ONE CONSENT - Hebrew, 'with the heart unanimously' (Psalms 64:5), imply...
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...
ARE CONFEDERATE] RV 'make a covenant.' 6, 7. EDOM.. MOAB.. AMMON] The neighbours of Israel on the SE. and E....
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...
THEY ARE CONFEDERATE. — Literally, _they have cut a covenant,_ from the custom described in Genesis 15:17. (Comp. the Greek δρκια τέμνειν.) AGAINST THEE. — God and “His hidden ones” are one, a truth p...
_[Psalms 83:6]_ כִּ֤י נֹועֲצ֣וּ לֵ֣ב יַחְדָּ֑ו עָ֝לֶ֗יךָ...
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...
For they have consulted together (e) with one consent: they are confederate (f) against thee: (e) By all secret means. (f) They thought to have subverted your counsel in which the constancy of the C...
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...
5_For they have consulted with the heart together. _The multiplied hosts which united their powers together to oppose the Church of God and to effect her overthrow, are here enumerated. As so many nat...
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...
FOR THEY HAVE CONSULTED TOGETHER WITH ONE CONSENT,.... Or "heart" e; wicked men are cordial to one another, and united in their counsels against the people of God, and his interest: whatever things th...
For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: Ver. 5. _They have consulted together with one consent_] Heb. with one heart, _concorditer,_ as if they had all b...
_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...
For they have consulted together with one consent, their hearts and minds all being of the same opinion and purpose; THEY ARE CONFEDERATE AGAINST THEE, their covenant against Israel being in reality a...
CONSENT: _ Heb._ heart...
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...
They have laid aside all their private quarrels and animosities, and agreed together against thee....
Psalms 83:5 consulted H3289 (H8738) together H3162 consent H3820 form H3772 (H8799) confederacy H1285 For -...
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,...
2 Samuel 10:6; Acts 23:12; Acts 23:13; Isaiah 7:2; Isaiah 7:5;...