Psalms 83:3
With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
In Context
2See how Your enemies rage, how Your foes have reared their heads.
4saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
Cross References
1 Samuel 13:19And no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “The Hebrews must not be allowed to make swords or spears.”
Psalms 10:9He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.
Psalms 31:20You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the schemes of men. You conceal them in Your shelter from accusing tongues.
Psalms 64:2Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,
Isaiah 7:6‘Let us invade Judah, terrorize it, and divide it among ourselves. Then we can install the son of Tabeal over it as king.’
Colossians 3:3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
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 →