New Living Translation
Psalms 83:12
12for they said, “Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!”
Psalms 83:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
- New International Version (NIV)who said, “Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God."
- New King James Version (NKJV)Who said, “Let us take for ourselves The pastures of God for a possession.”
Context of Psalms 83:12
10They were destroyed at Endor, and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil. 11Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did. Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna, for they said, “Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!” 13O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind! 14As a fire burns a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,
Read all of Psalms 83Psalms 83:12 word by word
אֲשֶׁ֣ר אָ֭מְרוּ נִ֣ירֲשָׁה לָּ֑נוּ אֵ֝֗ת נְא֣וֹת אֱלֹהִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 83:12
- Psalms 83:4“Come,” they say, “let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence.”
- Psalms 74:7They burned your sanctuary to the ground. They defiled the place that bears your name.
- 2 Chronicles 20:11Now see how they reward us! For they have come to throw us out of your land, which you gave us as an inheritance.
Commentaries on Psalms 83:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession - Nearly the words spoken by the confederates when they came to attack Jehoshaphat. They come (says the king in address to God) to cast us out of thy possession which thou hast given us to inherit. See 2 Chronicles 20:11.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession - The houses of God here mean the habitations of God, or the places where he dwelt among the people. As there was but one ark, one tabernacle, and one temple, or one place of constituted public worship, this must refer to other places where God was worshipped, or where he might be supposed to reside; either to synagogues (see the notes at Psalm 74:8), or to the private dwellings of the…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. 12The coalition wanted to destroy Israel to take over the land (see Jeremiah 3:19).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. The language of the invaders. houses--literally, "residences," enclosures, as for flocks (Psa 65:12). of God--as the proprietors of the land (2Ch 20:11; Is 14:25).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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