Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 83:2
2See how your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have acted arrogantly.
Psalms 83:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
- New International Version (NIV)See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For behold, your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have raised their heads.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head.
Context of Psalms 83:2
1God, do not keep silent. Do not be deaf, God; do not be quiet. See how your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have acted arrogantly. 3They devise clever schemes against your people; they conspire against your treasured ones. 4They say, “Come, let’s wipe them out as a nation so that Israel’s name will no longer be remembered.”
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כִּֽי־הִנֵּ֣ה א֭וֹיְבֶיךָ יֶהֱמָי֑וּן וּ֝מְשַׂנְאֶ֗יךָ נָ֣שְׂאוּ רֹֽאשׁ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 83:2
- Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- Psalms 74:4Your adversaries roared in the meeting place where you met with us. They set up their emblems as signs.
- 2 Kings 19:28Because your raging against me and your arrogance have reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth; I will make you go back the way you came.
- Isaiah 37:29Because your raging against me and your arrogance have reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth; I will make you go back the way you came.
- Jeremiah 1:19They will fight against you but never prevail over you, since I am with you to rescue you.” This is the Lord’s declaration.
- Matthew 27:24When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that a riot was starting instead, he took some water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. See to it yourselves!”
- Acts 4:25You said through the Holy Spirit, by the mouth of our father David your servant: Why do the Gentiles rage and the peoples plot futile things?
- Acts 16:22The crowd joined in the attack against them, and the chief magistrates stripped off their clothes and ordered them to be beaten with rods.
- Acts 17:5But the Jews became jealous, and they brought together some wicked men from the marketplace, formed a mob, and started a riot in the city. Attacking Jason’s house, they searched for them to bring them out to the public assembly.
- Acts 19:28When they had heard this, they were filled with rage and began to cry out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
- Acts 21:30The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul, dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut.
- Acts 22:22They listened to him up to this point. Then they raised their voices, shouting, “Wipe this man off the face of the earth! He should not be allowed to live!”
- Acts 23:10When the dispute became violent, the commander feared that Paul might be torn apart by them and ordered the troops to go down, take him away from them, and bring him into the barracks.
- Psalms 81:15Those who hate the Lord would cower to him; their doom would last forever.
- Psalms 75:4I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.
- Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their pounding waves.
Commentaries on Psalms 83:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Thine enemies make a tumult - They are not merely the enemies of thy people, but they are the enemies of thyself, thy worship, ordinances, and laws: "They make a tumult," they throng together. They - have lifted up the head - They have made an irruption into the land of Judea, and encamped at En-gedi, by the Dead Sea, 2 Chronicles 20:1, 2 Chronicles 20:2.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult - Are excited; are aroused; are moving in a wild, furious, tumultuous manner, rushing on to the accomplishment of their designs. They come like rolling waves of the sea. See the word used here explained in the notes at Psalm 2:1, where it is rendered, in the text, “rage;” in the margin, “tumultuously assemble.” And they that hate thee - Thine enemies; the enemies of thy cause, and of thy people. Who they were is…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-4The enemy has successfully intimidated God’s people, so the poet prays that the Lord will hear and act.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. thine enemies--as well as ours (Psa 74:23; Is 37:23).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 83
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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