Psalms 83:3
laying crafty plans for your people, and plotting against those you treasure.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
In Context
2For see! Your enemies roar, those who hate you lift up their heads,
4“Come, let us wipe them out as a nation, so Israel’s name will be mentioned no more.”
Cross References
Psalms 10:9Like a lion that lurks in a secret lair they lurk intending to catch the defenceless; to seize them, to drag them away in their net.
Psalms 31:20In your sheltering wings you hide them from plottings of people, you keep them safe in a bower from the chiding of tongues.
Psalms 64:2Hide me from villains who secretly plot, from the blustering throng of the workers of evil,
Colossians 3:3For you died, and your life now lies hidden, with the 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 →