Tree of Life Version
Psalms 83:2
2God, do not keep silent. Do not hold Your peace, O God. Do not be still.
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
1A song: a psalm of Asaph. God, do not keep silent. Do not hold Your peace, O God. Do not be still. 3For look, Your enemies make an uproar. Those who hate You lift up their head. 4They make a shrewd plot against Your people, conspiring against Your treasured ones.
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כִּֽי־הִנֵּ֣ה א֭וֹיְבֶיךָ יֶהֱמָי֑וּן וּ֝מְשַׂנְאֶ֗יךָ נָ֣שְׂאוּ רֹֽאשׁ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 83:2
- Psalms 2:1Why are the nations in an uproar, and the peoples mutter vanity?
- Psalms 74:4Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place. They have set up their standards as signs.
- 2 Kings 19:28Because your raging against Me and your arrogance reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose, and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way you came.”
- Isaiah 37:29Because your raging against Me and your arrogance reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose, and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way that you came.”
- Jeremiah 1:19Though they will fight against you, they will not win, for I am with you, to deliver you.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
- Matthew 27:24When Pilate saw he was accomplishing nothing, but instead a riot was starting, he took some water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this blood,” he said. “You see to it yourselves!”
- Acts 4:25You said by the Ruach ha-Kodesh, through the mouth of our father David Your servant, ‘Why did the nations rage and the peoples plot foolish things?
- Acts 16:22Then the crowd joined in the attack on them. So the chief authorities ripped their clothes off them and commanded them to be beaten with rods.
- Acts 17:5But some of the Jewish people became jealous. Taking some wicked fellows of the marketplace and gathering a crowd, they stirred the city into an uproar. They attacked Jason’s house, trying to bring Paul and Silas out to the mob.
- Acts 19:28When they heard, they were filled with fury and began shouting, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
- Acts 21:30The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They grabbed Paul and dragged him out of the Temple, and the gates were shut at once.
- Acts 22:22Up to this statement they listened to him. Then they raised their voices, saying, “Away from the earth with this fellow! For he’s not fit to live!”
- Acts 23:10As a big dispute was developing, the commander was afraid that Paul would be torn to pieces by them. So he ordered the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them and to bring him into headquarters.
- Psalms 81:15I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn My hand against their foes.
- Psalms 75:4When the earth wavers with living on it, I Myself hold its pillars firm. Selah
- Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, Adonai, the floods have lifted up their voice, the floods lift up their crashing 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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