Revised Literal Translation
Psalms 83:3
3They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden 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
1Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. 2For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. 4They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 5For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
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עַֽל־עַ֭מְּךָ יַעֲרִ֣ימוּ ס֑וֹד וְ֝יִתְיָעֲצ֗וּ עַל־צְפוּנֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 83:3
- Psalms 10:9He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
- Psalms 56:6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
- Psalms 64:2Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
- 1 Samuel 13:19Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
- Isaiah 7:6Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:
- Luke 20:20And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
- Psalms 27:5For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
- Psalms 31:20Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
- Psalms 91:1He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
- Colossians 3:3For ye are dead, and your life is hid 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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