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Selected Verse: Psalms 83:1 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 83:1 |
Strong Concordance |
A Song [07892] or Psalm [04210] of Asaph [0623]. Keep not thou silence [01824], O God [0430]: hold not thy peace [02790], and be not still [08252], O God [0410]. |
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King James |
A Song or Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Of Asaph--(See on Psa 74:1, title). The historical occasion is probably that of Ch2 20:1-2 (compare Psa 47:1-9; Psa 48:1-14). After a general petition, the craft and rage of the combined enemies are described, God's former dealings recited, and a like summary and speedy destruction on them is invoked. (Psa. 83:1-18)
God addressed as indifferent (compare Psa 35:22; Psa 39:12).
be not still--literally, "not quiet," as opposed to action. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Keep not thou silence, O God - See the notes at Psa 28:1. The prayer here is that in the existing emergency God would not seem to be indifferent to the needs and dangers of his people, and to the purposes of their enemies, but that he would speak with a voice of command, and break up their designs.
Hold not thy peace - That is, Speak. Give commaud. Disperse them by thine own authority.
And be not still, O God - Awake; arouse; be not indifferent to the needs and dangers of thy people. All this is the language of petition; not of command. Its rapidity, its repetition, its tone, all denote that the danger was imminent, and that the necessity for the divine interposition was urgent. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| The poet prays, may God not remain an inactive looker-on in connection with the danger of destruction that threatens His people. דּמי (with which יהי is to be supplied) is the opposite of alertness; חרשׁ the opposite of speaking (in connection with which it is assumed that God's word is at the same time deed); שׁקט the opposite of being agitated and activity. The energetic future jehemajûn gives outward emphasis to the confirmation of the petition, and the fact that Israel's foes are the foes of God gives inward emphasis to it. On נשׂא ראשׁ, cf. Psa 110:7. סוד is here a secret agreement; and יערימוּ, elsewhere to deal craftily, here signifies to craftily plot, devise, bring a thing about. צפוּניך is to be understood according to Psa 27:5; Psa 31:21. The Hithpa. התיעץ alternates here with the more ancient Niph. (Psa 83:6). The design of the enemies in this instance has reference to the total extirpation of Israel, of the separatist-people who exclude themselves from the life of the world and condemn it. מגּוי, from being a people = so that it may no longer be a people or nation, as in Isa 7:8; Isa 17:1; Isa 25:2; Jer 48:42. In the borrowed passage, Jer 48:2, by an interchange of a letter it is נכריתנּה. This Asaph Psalm is to be discerned in not a few passages of the prophets; cf. Isa 62:6. with Psa 83:2, Isa 17:12 with Psa 83:3. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Keep not thou silence - A strong appeal to God just as the confederacy was discovered. Do not be inactive, do not be neuter. Thy honor and our existence are both at stake. |
12 Hear [08085] my prayer [08605], O LORD [03068], and give ear [0238] unto my cry [07775]; hold not thy peace [02790] at my tears [01832]: for I am a stranger [01616] with thee, and a sojourner [08453], as all my fathers [01] were.
22 This thou hast seen [07200], O LORD [03068]: keep not silence [02790]: O Lord [0136], be not far [07368] from me.
1 A Song [07892] and Psalm [04210] for the sons [01121] of Korah [07141]. Great [01419] is the LORD [03068], and greatly [03966] to be praised [01984] in the city [05892] of our God [0430], in the mountain [02022] of his holiness [06944].
2 Beautiful [03303] for situation [05131], the joy [04885] of the whole earth [0776], is mount [02022] Zion [06726], on the sides [03411] of the north [06828], the city [07151] of the great [07227] King [04428].
3 God [0430] is known [03045] in her palaces [0759] for a refuge [04869].
4 For, lo, the kings [04428] were assembled [03259], they passed by [05674] together [03162].
5 They saw [07200] it, and so they marvelled [08539]; they were troubled [0926], and hasted away [02648].
6 Fear [07461] took hold [0270] upon them there, and pain [02427], as of a woman in travail [03205].
7 Thou breakest [07665] the ships [0591] of Tarshish [08659] with an east [06921] wind [07307].
8 As we have heard [08085], so have we seen [07200] in the city [05892] of the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], in the city [05892] of our God [0430]: God [0430] will establish [03559] it for [05704] ever [05769]. Selah [05542].
9 We have thought [01819] of thy lovingkindness [02617], O God [0430], in the midst [07130] of thy temple [01964].
10 According to thy name [08034], O God [0430], so is thy praise [08416] unto the ends [07099] of the earth [0776]: thy right hand [03225] is full [04390] of righteousness [06664].
11 Let mount [02022] Zion [06726] rejoice [08055], let the daughters [01323] of Judah [03063] be glad [01523], because of thy judgments [04941].
12 Walk about [05437] Zion [06726], and go round about [05362] her: tell [05608] the towers [04026] thereof.
13 Mark [07896] ye well [03820] her bulwarks [02430], consider [06448] her palaces [0759]; that ye may tell [05608] it to the generation [01755] following [0314].
14 For this God [0430] is our God [0430] for ever [05769] and ever [05703]: he will be our guide [05090] even unto death [04192].
1 To the chief Musician [05329], A Psalm [04210] for the sons [01121] of Korah [07141]. O clap [08628] your hands [03709], all ye people [05971]; shout [07321] unto God [0430] with the voice [06963] of triumph [07440].
2 For the LORD [03068] most high [05945] is terrible [03372]; he is a great [01419] King [04428] over all the earth [0776].
3 He shall subdue [01696] the people [05971] under us, and the nations [03816] under our feet [07272].
4 He shall choose [0977] our inheritance [05159] for us, the excellency [01347] of Jacob [03290] whom he loved [0157]. Selah [05542].
5 God [0430] is gone up [05927] with a shout [08643], the LORD [03068] with the sound [06963] of a trumpet [07782].
6 Sing praises [02167] to God [0430], sing praises [02167]: sing praises [02167] unto our King [04428], sing praises [02167].
7 For God [0430] is the King [04428] of all the earth [0776]: sing ye praises [02167] with understanding [07919].
8 God [0430] reigneth [04427] over the heathen [01471]: God [0430] sitteth [03427] upon the throne [03678] of his holiness [06944].
9 The princes [05081] of the people [05971] are gathered together [0622], even the people [05971] of the God [0430] of Abraham [085]: for the shields [04043] of the earth [0776] belong unto God [0430]: he is greatly [03966] exalted [05927].
1 It came to pass after this [0310] also, that the children [01121] of Moab [04124], and the children [01121] of Ammon [05983], and with them other beside the Ammonites [05984], came [0935] against Jehoshaphat [03092] to battle [04421].
2 Then there came [0935] some that told [05046] Jehoshaphat [03092], saying [0559], There cometh [0935] a great [07227] multitude [01995] against thee from beyond [05676] the sea [03220] on this side Syria [0758]; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar [02688], which is Engedi [05872].
1 Maschil [04905] of Asaph [0623]. O God [0430], why hast thou cast us off [02186] for ever [05331]? why doth thine anger [0639] smoke [06225] against the sheep [06629] of thy pasture [04830]?
1 A Psalm of David [01732]. Unto thee will I cry [07121], O LORD [03068] my rock [06697]; be not silent [02814] to me: lest, if thou be silent [02790] to me, I become [04911] like them that go down [03381] into the pit [0953].
3 They have taken crafty [06191] counsel [05475] against thy people [05971], and consulted [03289] against thy hidden ones [06845].
12 Woe [01945] to the multitude [01995] of many [07227] people [05971], which make a noise [01993] like the noise [01993] of the seas [03220]; and to the rushing [07588] of nations [03816], that make a rushing like the rushing [07582] of mighty [03524] waters [04325]!
2 For, lo, thine enemies [0341] make a tumult [01993]: and they that hate [08130] thee have lifted up [05375] the head [07218].
6 I have set [06485] watchmen [08104] upon thy walls [02346], O Jerusalem [03389], which shall never [08548] hold their peace [02814] day [03117] nor night [03915]: ye that make mention [02142] of the LORD [03068], keep not silence [01824],
2 There shall be no more praise [08416] of Moab [04124]: in Heshbon [02809] they have devised [02803] evil [07451] against it; come [03212], and let us cut it off [03772] from being a nation [01471]. Also thou shalt be cut down [01826], O Madmen [04086]; the sword [02719] shall pursue [03212] thee [0310].
42 And Moab [04124] shall be destroyed [08045] from being a people [05971], because he hath magnified [01431] himself against the LORD [03068].
2 For thou hast made [07760] of a city [05892] an heap [01530]; of a defenced [01219] city [07151] a ruin [04654]: a palace [0759] of strangers [02114] to be no city [05892]; it shall never [05769] be built [01129].
1 The burden [04853] of Damascus [01834]. Behold, Damascus [01834] is taken away [05493] from being a city [05892], and it shall be a ruinous [04654] heap [04596].
8 For the head [07218] of Syria [0758] is Damascus [01834], and the head [07218] of Damascus [01834] is Rezin [07526]; and within threescore [08346] and five [02568] years [08141] shall Ephraim [0669] be broken [02865], that it be not a people [05971].
6 The tabernacles [0168] of Edom [0123], and the Ishmaelites [03459]; of Moab [04124], and the Hagarenes [01905];
21 Blessed [01288] be the LORD [03068]: for he hath shewed me his marvellous [06381] kindness [02617] in a strong [04692] city [05892].
5 For in the time [03117] of trouble [07451] he shall hide [06845] me in his pavilion [05520]: in the secret [05643] of his tabernacle [0168] shall he hide [05641] me; he shall set me up [07311] upon a rock [06697].
7 He shall drink [08354] of the brook [05158] in the way [01870]: therefore shall he lift up [07311] the head [07218].