Psalms 83:2
\83:1\O God, do not keep quiet: let your lips be open and take no rest, O God.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
In Context
3\83:2\For see! those who make war on you are out of control; your haters are lifting up their heads.
Cross References
2 Kings 19:28Because your wrath against me and your words of pride have come up to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.
Psalms 74:4Sending out their voices like lions among your worshippers; they have put up their signs to be seen.
Psalms 75:4\75:3\When the earth and all its people become feeble, I am the support of its pillars. (Selah.)
Psalms 93:3The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry.
Isaiah 17:12Ah! the voice of peoples, like the loud sounding of the seas, and the thundering of great nations rushing on like the bursting out of waters!
Isaiah 37:29Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 83:2-9
Complaints against Enemies. 1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. 2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: 6 The tabernacles of… Read the whole commentary →