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Psalms 83:3
3For look, Your enemies make an uproar. Those who hate You lift up their head.
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
1A song: a psalm of Asaph. 2God, do not keep silent. Do not hold Your peace, O God. Do not be still. For 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. 5“Come,” they say, “let’s wipe them out as a nation! Let Israel’s name be remembered no more!”
Read all of Psalms 83Psalms 83:3 word by word
עַֽל־עַ֭מְּךָ יַעֲרִ֣ימוּ ס֑וֹד וְ֝יִתְיָעֲצ֗וּ עַל־צְפוּנֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 83:3
- Psalms 10:9He lurks in a hiding place like a lion in a thicket. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the unfortunate one, dragging him away in his net.
- Psalms 56:6All day they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
- Psalms 64:2Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint. Protect my life from terror of the enemy.
- 1 Samuel 13:19Now no blacksmith could be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears!”
- Isaiah 7:6“Let us go up against Judah, terrorize it, divide it for ourselves, and appoint Tabeel’s son as king in the midst of it.”
- Luke 20:20Now they watched Him and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, in order to trap Him in His words so they could hand Him over to the power and authority of the governor.
- Psalms 27:5For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His sukkah, conceal me in the shelter of His tent, and set me high upon a rock.
- Psalms 31:20How great is Your goodness, which You have stored up for those who fear You, which You have given to those who take refuge in You, before the children of men.
- Psalms 91:1He who dwells in the shelter of Elyon, will abide in the shadow of Shaddai.
- Colossians 3:3For you have died, and your life is hidden with Messiah 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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