Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 83:3
3They devise clever schemes against your people; they conspire against your treasured ones.
Psalms 83:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
- New International Version (NIV)With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish.
- English Standard Version (ESV)They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your treasured ones.
- New King James Version (NKJV)They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones.
Context of Psalms 83:3
1God, do not keep silent. Do not be deaf, God; do not be quiet. 2See how your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have acted arrogantly. They 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.” 5For they have conspired with one mind; they form an alliance against you —
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עַֽל־עַ֭מְּךָ יַעֲרִ֣ימוּ ס֑וֹד וְ֝יִתְיָעֲצ֗וּ עַל־צְפוּנֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 83:3
- Psalms 10:9he lurks in secret like a lion in a thicket. He lurks in order to seize a victim; he seizes a victim and drags him in his net.
- Psalms 56:6They stir up strife, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.
- Psalms 64:2Hide me from the scheming of wicked people, from the mob of evildoers,
- 1 Samuel 13:19No blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel because the Philistines had said, “Otherwise, the Hebrews will make swords or spears.”
- Isaiah 7:6‘Let’s go up against Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it for ourselves. Then we can install Tabeel’s son as king in it.’”
- Luke 20:20They watched closely and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, so that they could catch him in what he said, to hand him over to the governor’s rule and authority.
- Psalms 27:5For he will conceal me in his shelter in the day of adversity; he will hide me under the cover of his tent; he will set me high on a rock.
- Psalms 31:20You hide them in the protection of your presence; you conceal them in a shelter from human schemes, from quarrelsome tongues.
- Psalms 91:1The one who lives under the protection of the Most High dwells in the shadow of the Almighty.
- Colossians 3:3For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Commentaries on Psalms 83:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Consulted against thy hidden ones - צפוניך tsephuneycha, Thy hidden things; places; persons. "The hidden things in thy treasures." - Chaldee. "Thy holy ones." - Syriac. "Thy saints." - Vulgate and Septuagint; and so the Ethiopic and Arabic. The people of Israel are probably meant. Or perhaps the temple, the ark, and the treasures of the temple, are intended.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3They have taken crafty counsel - The one word translated “have taken crafty” - ערם ‛âram - means properly to make naked; and then, to be crafty, cunning, malignant, 1 Samuel 23:22. It is well rendered here, they have taken crafty counsel. The meaning is, they have made their counsel or their consultations crafty, cunning, artful, malignant. Instead of pursuing a course in their deliberations that would be just, true, honorable, they have followed the…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. 33. hidden ones--whom God specially protects (Psa 27:5; 91:1).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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