Psalms 83:1
A SONG. A PSALM OF ASAPH. O God, let there be no silence to You, || Do not be silent, nor be quiet, O God.
Literal Standard Version
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, Your enemies roar, || And those hating You have lifted up the head,
Cross References
Psalms 28:1BY DAVID. To You, O YHWH, I call, || My rock, do not be silent to me! Lest You are silent to me, || And I have been compared || With those going down to the pit.
Psalms 44:23Stir up—why do You sleep, O Lord? Awake, do not cast us off forever.
Psalms 50:3Our God comes, and is not silent, || Fire devours before Him, || And around Him it has been very tempestuous.
Isaiah 42:14I have kept silent from of old, || I keep silent, I refrain Myself, || I cry out as a travailing woman, || I desolate and swallow up 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 →