Psalms 83:2
Can't you hear the roars of your enemies? Can't you see how those who hate you are defiantly lifting up their heads?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
In Context
1God, please do not stay silent! You can't remain unmoved! God, you must not keep quiet!
3They invent cunning plans to conspire against your people; they plot against those you treasure.
Cross References
2 Kings 19:28Because of your furious anger against me, and because I know how you disrespect me, I'm going to put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will force you to return the same way you came.”
Psalms 74:4The enemy shouted in triumph right where you met with us. There they set up their war banners as signs of their victory.
Psalms 75:4To those who boast I say, ‘Don't boast!’ I tell the wicked, ‘Don't be proud!’
Psalms 93:3The floods have raised up, Lord; the floods have raised their voices; the floods have raised up their crashing waves.
Isaiah 17:12Disaster is coming to the many nations that growl, growling like the raging sea! Disaster is coming to the peoples who roar, roaring like thundering waters!
Isaiah 37:29Because of your furious anger against me, and because I know how you disrespect me, I'm going to put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will force you to return the same 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 →