Psalms 83:1
Do not keep silent, O God: hold not your peace, be not still, God.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
In Context
2For see! Your enemies roar, those who hate you lift up their heads,
Cross References
Psalms 28:1Unto you, O Lord, do I cry; my rock, be not deaf to me: lest, through holding your peace, I become like those who go down to the pit.
Psalms 44:23Rouse yourself, why do you sleep Lord? Awake, cast us not off forever.
Psalms 50:3Our God comes, he cannot keep silence, devouring fire is before him, and furious tempest around him.
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 →