Psalms 83:1
A song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, be not silent; be not speechless; be not still, O God.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
In Context
2See how Your enemies rage, how Your foes have reared their heads.
Cross References
Psalms 28:1Of David. To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.
Psalms 44:23Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
Psalms 50:3Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
Isaiah 42:14“I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.
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 →