Psalms 83:1
“A song or psalm of Assaph.” (83:2) O God, take no rest for thyself: be not silent and keep not still, O God!
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
In Context
2(83:3) For, lo, thy enemies make a tumult, and they that hate thee have lifted up their head.
Cross References
Psalms 28:1“Of David.” Unto thee, O Lord, will I call; O my rock, turn not unheeding from me: lest thou turn away silent from me, and I become like those that go down into the pit.
Psalms 44:23(44:24) Awake, wherefore wilt thou sleep, O Lord? arise, abandon us not for ever.
Psalms 50:3Our God is coming, and will not keep silence: a fire devoureth before him, and round him there rageth a mighty storm.
Isaiah 42:14I have a long time held my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: [now] like a travailing woman will I cry; I will destroy and devour [all] 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 →