English Standard Version
Psalms 83:15
15so may you pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your hurricane!
Psalms 83:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
- New International Version (NIV)so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.
- New King James Version (NKJV)So pursue them with Your tempest, And frighten them with Your storm.
- New Living Translation (NLT)chase them with your fierce storm; terrify them with your tempest.
Context of Psalms 83:15
13O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind. 14As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze, so may you pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your hurricane! 16Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O Lord. 17Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever; let them perish in disgrace,
Read all of Psalms 83Psalms 83:15 word by word
כֵּ֭ן תִּרְדְּפֵ֣ם בְּסַעֲרֶ֑ךָ וּבְסוּפָתְךָ֥ תְבַהֲלֵֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 83:15
- Psalms 11:6Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
- Psalms 50:3Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest.
- Psalms 58:9Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!
- Job 9:17For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;
- Job 27:20Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off.
- Isaiah 28:17And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter."
- Isaiah 30:30And the Lord will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and storm and hailstones.
- Ezekiel 13:11say to those who smear it with whitewash that it shall fall! There will be a deluge of rain, and you, O great hailstones, will fall, and a stormy wind break out.
- Matthew 7:27And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it."
- Hebrews 12:18For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest
Commentaries on Psalms 83:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15So persecute them - In this and the two following verses we find several awful execrations; and all this seems to be done in reference to that ancient custom, "pouring execrations on an enemy previously to battle." Of this I have already given specimens in this work; and the reader is particularly requested to refer to the case of Balaam being hired by the king of Moab to curse Israel previously to his intended attack: see the note on Numbers 22:6, where…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15So persecute them - So pursue them; so follow them up. The word “persecute” is now used in a somewhat different sense, as denoting pain or suffering inflicted on account of religious opinion. It means here simply to pursue. With thy tempest - With the expressions of thy displeasure; with punishment which may be compared with the fury of a storm. And make them afraid with thy storm - Or, Make them afraid, terrify them, so that they will flee away. As all…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-18Verses 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 enemies like a wheel; unsettled in all their counsels and resolves. Not only let them be driven away as stubble, but burnt as stubble. And this will be the end of wicked men. Let them be made to fear thy name, and perhaps that will bring them to seek thy…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14-15fire … flame … tempest: These images describe how God appears when he brings judgment (see Isaiah 29:6).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 14-1514-15. Pursue them to an utter destruction.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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