Revised Webster's Bible
Psalms 83:2
2For, lo, thy enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
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
1Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. For, lo, thy enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. 3They 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.
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כִּֽי־הִנֵּ֣ה א֭וֹיְבֶיךָ יֶהֱמָי֑וּן וּ֝מְשַׂנְאֶ֗יךָ נָ֣שְׂאוּ רֹֽאשׁ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 83:2
- Psalms 2:1Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
- Psalms 74:4Thy enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their banners for signs.
- 2 Kings 19:28Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
- Isaiah 37:29Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee 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 the LORD, to deliver thee.
- Matthew 27:24When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it .
- Acts 4:25Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
- Acts 16:22And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates tore off their clothes, and commanded to beat them .
- Acts 17:5But the Jews who believed not, moved with envy, took to them certain wicked fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city in an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
- Acts 19:28And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
- Acts 21:30And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and immediately the doors were shut.
- Acts 22:22And they hearkened to him until this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
- Acts 23:10And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the barracks.
- Psalms 81:15The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves to him: and their time should have endured for ever.
- Psalms 75:4I said to the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
- Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift their 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
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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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