New English Translation
Psalms 83:15
15chase them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your windstorm.
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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)so may you pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your hurricane!
- New King James Version (NKJV)So pursue them with Your tempest, And frighten them with Your storm.
Context of Psalms 83:15
13O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind! 14Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides, chase them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your windstorm. 16Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O Lord. 17May they be humiliated and continually terrified! May they die in shame!
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כֵּ֭ן תִּרְדְּפֵ֣ם בְּסַעֲרֶ֑ךָ וּבְסוּפָתְךָ֥ תְבַהֲלֵֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 83:15
- Psalms 11:6May the Lord rain down burning coals and brimstone on the wicked! A whirlwind is what they deserve!
- Psalms 50:3Our God approaches and is not silent; consuming fire goes ahead of him and all around him a storm rages.
- Psalms 58:9Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.
- Job 9:17he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason.
- Job 27:20Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.
- Isaiah 28:17I will make justice the measuring line, fairness the plumb line; hail will sweep away the unreliable refuge, the floodwaters will overwhelm the hiding place.
- Isaiah 30:30The Lord will give a mighty shout and intervene in power, with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire, with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.
- Ezekiel 13:11Tell the ones who coat it with whitewash that it will fall. When there is a deluge of rain, hailstones will fall and a violent wind will break out.
- Matthew 7:27The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed; it was utterly destroyed!”
- Hebrews 12:18For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind
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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