rd

Psalms 83

1 The people of Israél pray unto the Lord to deliver them from their enemies both at home and far off, which imagined nothing but their destruction, 9 And they desire that all such wicked people may, according as God was accustomed, be stricken with the stormy tempest of God’s wrath, 18 That they may know that the Lord is most high upon the earth.
¶ A song, or Psalme committed to Asáph.
1.Keep anot thou silence, ô God: be not still and cease not, ô God.
2.For lo, thine benemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee, have lifted up the head.
3.They have taken craftie counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy csecret ones.
4.They have said, Come and let us dcut them off from being a nation: and let the name of Israél be no more in remembrance.
5.For they have consulted together ein heart, and have made a league fagainst thee:
6.The tabernacle of Edóm, and the Ishmaelites, Moáb and the Agarims:
7.Gebál and Ammón, and Amaléch, the Philistims with the inhabitants of ^Tyrus:
8.Asshúr also is joined with them: they have been an arm to the children gof Lot. Sélah.
9.Do thou to them as unto the hMidianites: as to Siserá and as to Jabín at the river of Kishón.
10.They perished at En-dór, and were idongue for the earth.
11.Make them, even their princes like *Oréb and like Zeéb: yea, all their princes like Zébah and like Zalmuná.
12.Which have said, Let us take for our possession the khabitacions of God.
13.O my God, make them like unto a lwheel, and as the stubble before the wind.
14.As the fyer burneth the forest, and as the flame setteth the mountains of fyer:
15.So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
16.Fill their faces with shame, that they maie mseek thy Name, ô Lord.
17.Let them be confounded and troubled for ever: yea, let them be put to shame and perish,
18.That they maie nknow that thou, which art called Jehováh, art alone, even the most High over all the earth.

Notes

1-a.
This psalm seems to have been composed, as a form of prayer against the dangers that the Church was in in the days of Joshaphat.
2-b.
He calls them God’s enemies, which are enemies to his Church.
3-c.
The elect of God are his secret ones: for he hides them in the secret of his tabernacle, and preserves them from all dangers.
4-d.
They were not content to take the Church as prisoner, but sought utterly to destroy it.
5-e.
By all secret means.
5-f.
They thought to have subverted your counsel, wherein the perpetuity of the Church was established.
7-^.
Or, Zor.
8-g.
The wickedness of the Ammonites and Moabites is described, in that they provoked these other nations to fight against the Israelites their brethren.
9-h.
By these examples, they were confirmed that God would not suffer his people to be utterly destroyed, Jud. 7.21 and 4.15.
10-i.
Trodden under feet as mire.
11-*.
Jud. 7.25, 8.21.
12-k.
That is, Judea: for where his Church is, there dwells he among them.
13-l.
Because the reprobate could by no means be amended, he prays that they may utterly be destroyed, be unstable and led with all winds.
16-m.
That is, be compelled by your plagues to confess your power.
18-n.
Though they believe not, yet they may prove by experience, that it is in vain to resist against your counsel in establishing your Church.