Psalms 83:1
O God, keep thou not silence. Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
In Context
2For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult, and those who hate thee have lifted up the head.
Cross References
Psalms 28:1To thee, O LORD, I will call. My rock, be not thou deaf to me, lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit.
Psalms 44:23Awake, why do thou sleep, O LORD? Arise, cast not off forever.
Psalms 50:3Our God comes, and does not keep silence. A fire devours before him, and it is very tempestuous round about him.
Isaiah 42:14I have for a long time held my peace. I have been still, and refrained myself. [Now] I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will gasp and pant together.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 83:1
This psalm is the last of those that go under the name of Asaph. It is penned, as most of those, upon a public account, with reference to the insults of the church's enemies, who sought its ruin. Some think it was penned upon occasion of the threatening descent which was made upon the land of Judah in Jehoshaphat's time by the Moabites and Ammonites, those children of Lot here spoken of ( ver. 8 ), who were at the head of the alliance and to whom all the other states here mentioned were auxiliaries. We have the… Read the whole commentary →