Psalms 83:2

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

1O God, keep not silence; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God: For behold, thine enemies make a tumult; and they that hate thee lift up the head. 3They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult against thy hidden ones: 4They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more.

Psalms 83:2 word by word

כִּֽי־הִנֵּ֣ה א֭וֹיְבֶיךָ יֶהֱמָי֑וּן וּ֝מְשַׂנְאֶ֗יךָ נָ֣שְׂאוּ רֹֽאשׁ׃Read the interlinear

Cross-references for Psalms 83:2

• Psalms 2:1Why are the nations in tumultuous agitation, and [why] do the peoples meditate a vain thing?
• Psalms 74:4Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs [for] signs.
• 2 Kings 19:28Because thy raging against me and thine arrogance is come up into mine ears, I will put my ring in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, And I will make thee go back by the way by which thou camest.
• Isaiah 37:29Because thy raging against me and thine arrogance is come up into mine ears, I will put my ring in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will make thee go back by the way by which thou camest.
• Jeremiah 1:19And they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee, saith Jehovah, to deliver thee.
• Matthew 27:24And Pilate, seeing that it availed nothing, but that rather a tumult was arising, having taken water, washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am guiltless of the blood of this righteous one: see ye [to it].
• Acts 4:25who hast said by the mouth of thy servant David, Why have [the] nations raged haughtily and [the] peoples meditated vain things?
• Acts 16:22And the crowd rose up too against them; and the praetors, having torn off their clothes, commanded to scourge [them].
• Acts 17:5But the Jews having been stirred up to jealousy, and taken to [themselves] certain wicked men of the lowest rabble, and having got a crowd together, set the city in confusion; and having beset the house of Jason sought to bring them out to the people;
• Acts 19:28And having heard [this], and being filled with rage, they cried out, saying, Great [is] Artemis of the Ephesians.
• Acts 21:30And the whole city was moved, and there was a concourse of the people; and having laid hold on Paul they drew him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut.
• Acts 22:22And they heard him until this word, and lifted up their voice, saying, Away with such a one as that from the earth, for it was not fit he should live.
• Acts 23:10And a great tumult having arisen, the chiliarch, fearing lest Paul should have been torn in pieces by them, commanded the troop to come down and take him by force from the midst of them, and to bring [him] into the fortress.
• Psalms 81:15The haters of Jehovah would have come cringing unto him; but their time would have been for ever.
• Psalms 75:4I said unto the boastful, Boast not; and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
• Psalms 93:3The floods lifted up, O Jehovah, the floods lifted up their voice; the floods lifted up their roaring 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

Topics related to Psalms 83:2

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Armies
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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