Psalms 83:1
{A Song; a Psalm of Asaph.} O God, keep not silence; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God:
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
In Context
2For behold, thine enemies make a tumult; and they that hate thee lift up the head.
Cross References
Psalms 28:1{[A Psalm] of David.} Unto thee, Jehovah, do I call; my rock, be not silent unto me, lest, [if] thou keep silence toward me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Psalms 44:23Awake, why sleepest thou, Lord? arise, cast [us] not off for ever.
Psalms 50:3Our God will come, and will not keep silence: fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Isaiah 42:14Long time have I holden my peace; I have been still, I have restrained myself: I will cry like a woman that travaileth; I will blow and pant 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 →