Psalms 83:1
Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm to the sons of Korah.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
In Context
2How beloved are your tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!
Cross References
Psalms 28:1A Psalm of David, at the completion of the tabernacle. Bring to the Lord, O sons of God, bring to the Lord the sons of rams.
Psalms 50:3Be merciful to me, O God, according to your great mercy. And, according to the plentitude of your compassion, wipe out my iniquity.
Isaiah 42:14I have always been quiet; I have been silent; I have been patient. I will speak like a woman giving birth. I will destroy and consume, all at once.
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 →